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Professional Gardening Gloves

Garden with quality professional gloves in the right size!To the question, do we work as well with gloves as with bare hands, the answer is yes, but provided that the glove model used is suitable for what you have to do and that they are the right size. Working with gloves is truly a matter of habit, and once you get used to it, no more dirty hands, scratches, cuts, or bad odors.Wearing gloves is very useful for landscaping and gardening to:

• avoid getting dirty or staining your hands when in contact with plants, flowers, and herbs when you harvest, transplant, or graft
• avoid getting pricked or cut when you weed, harvest, or prune;
• avoid contact with toxic products for weeding and treatment;
• avoid persistent bad odors after you've taken cuttings, weeded, or planted;
• work better and have a better grip for digging, hoeing, or raking

What types of gloves are needed for gardeners and landscapers

Common garden or vegetable garden tasks such as taking cuttings, transplanting, sowing, or planting do not pose particular risks, and in this case, it's only a matter of protecting yourself from dirt or moisture. The choice will therefore be comfortable and thin leather or textile gloves to work with dexterity. But when it comes to handling cutting tools (pruning shears, knife, billhook, scissors), the risks of cuts are obviously much higher and require wearing gloves against cutting risks, not necessarily thicker, but much more resistant. The choice can also be for gloves with grip (crepe latex coating), that is to say allowing to hold tools well, this helps to avoid slipping and hand fatigue on toolsFor brush clearing operations, where you have to handle brambles, thorny plants, rose bushes, the big leather gloves sold in garden centers are not enough, prefer anti-puncture gloves designed to block the tip of a needle.For handling toxic products or for work in wet weather, waterproof nitrile or latex gloves (disposable or not) will be perfectly suitable.

What are the standards for professional gardener and landscaper gloves?

Professional gardening gloves are subject like all other protective gloves to the European standard EN420. This standard allows sizing the performance of gloves against wear (abrasion, tearing) and certain risks (cutting and perforation).Risks related to cold, heat are also subject to European standards EN 407, EN 511 in particular. Puncture risks are governed by an American standard as there is no European standard to date. To learn more about this standard, we invite you to browse the protective gloves standards page.

Our protection advice for the garden

There are three types of protective gloves for gardeners and landscapers: leather gloves, textile gloves, and synthetic gloves. To these different types of gloves must be added specific levels of protection depending on the use and the risks incurred.The paragraphs below explain the uses, advantages and disadvantages of each material and each type of gloves.Beyond the typology of gloves (material and protection) another criterion contributes to the comfort and dexterity of your gloves: size. We offer a video tutorial explaining how to measure your hand and determine the size of your gloves. Indeed, a glove that is too small is uncomfortable, a glove that is too large loses all its dexterity qualities. Also rely on advice on glove sizing because depending on the models and brands, some fit more or less large/small.Equipping yourself with gloves for gardening work is relevant to protect your hands and work better, but it will also be useful in some cases to protect your arms and eyes a little more, we also offer protective glasses and sleeves.Logging and pruning have other constraints and risks, the gloves are different, we invite you to browse the logger professions page.

What are the different materials of gardening gloves?

The historical glove material remains leather, but for a decade manufacturers have developed thin textile glove technologies that surpass the comfort and performance of leather gloves. Synthetic gloves will be useful in case of presence of chemicals or more simply to have waterproof gloves.

Leather gloves

Whether it's cowhide or goatskin leather, leather gloves continue to have their fans. The feel of leather remains always very pleasant (for quality gloves) and leather regulates temperature and humidity very well in the glove. However, if you are going to work in a humid environment, always opt for water-repellent leather gloves, otherwise non-water-repellent gloves will remain stiff after drying. Leather is perfect for handling work or when it's cool but does not protect against cuts, so there are leather glove models that are equipped with a Kevlar lining.

Textile gloves

This range of coated textile gloves is surely the one that contains the most references in the world of work gloves. Thanks to manufacturer innovation, we find on the market models that can combine comfort, dexterity, protection against cuts, heat, cold and possibly water depending on their type of coating. The ranges of performance and prices are very wide, the most expensive and technical models truly bring a plus compared to an entry-level glove.

Synthetic gloves

Nitrile, latex, neoprene, PVC are materials that we call synthetic (except for latex which can be natural) and which have been created to resist various chemical products or more simply water. These are necessarily waterproof gloves that can be disposable or reusable. If it's about handling water, all materials will be suitable, be careful with latex which can cause allergies. If you handle more dangerous and chemical products, you will need to adapt the material according to the product using this chemical materials guide.

Technical gloves

The risk incurred when handling certain tools such as pruning shears and especially electric pruning shears requires the use of suitable gloves to avoid accidental amputations. There are very specific gloves equipped with shells on the tips of the fingers exposed to this risk. Although uncomfortable at first, they have the huge advantage of allowing you to keep all your fingers.