Gardening gloves

[Britchic]

Hi

Can anyone recommend a brand of (preferably quite long) tough gardening gloves that aren't thick and clumsy? I need them for dealing with nettles and brambles, but I still want to be able to be dextrous with my fingers!

Thank you very much.

I don’t know if they have specifically what you are looking for , but we always have Showa gloves. First bought at the first Hampton Court show, the best we have ever had.

Thank you for that. Those might work - would they be ok with thorns etc? I didn't think about gloves being waterproof too - that would be a bonus!

I had some Briers gloves which were long, like gauntlets.

For what it’s worth, nettle roots don’t sting, and bramble roots don’t have thorns, so if you tackle from the roots, you don’t needs gloves. I regularly tackle robust growth of both at a local nature reserve and don’t wear gloves. I do need my arms covered, though.

The RHS do a nice range of soft leather gloves, one with gauntlets, in smaller sizes so you don’t have an inch of empty glove at the end of your finger tips. Expensive, though.