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05-20-2010, 05:35 AM
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Rub soap under your fingernails before gardening and it will be much easier to clean your hands afterwards.
Also, before you put on the garden gloves, apply a thick layer of heavy duty hand cream. (Lotion is too thin and too quickly absorbed to protect fingernails; you need a thick hand cream.) Rub vaseline into each fingernail and cuticle and you will keep your fingernails from becoming thin and brittle.
Tip of The Day features ideas I hear about--not always ones I've tried. They sound good to me in theory and who knows--some of them (hopefully most of them) may be brilliant. Anyway, the point of this thread is to start some fun conversations. By all means jump in and add jokes, comments, and even your own tips, if you'd like.
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05-20-2010, 05:40 AM
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Location: Covington County, Alabama
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My old tiller had fingers but never gloves.
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05-20-2010, 06:16 AM
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Location: Tampa Bay`·.¸¸ ><((((º>.·´¯`·><((((º>
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Very good tip,Normie. If you put some hand cream before the garden gloves hands will be so much softer when you take them off!!  |
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05-20-2010, 06:49 AM
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Location: Wallens Ridge
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Quote:
Originally Posted by normie
Rub soap under your fingernails before gardening and it will be much easier to clean your hands afterwards.
Also, before you put on the garden gloves, apply a thick layer of heavy duty hand cream. (Lotion is too thin and too quickly absorbed to protect fingernails; you need a thick hand cream.) Rub vaseline into each fingernail and cuticle and you will keep your fingernails from becoming thin and brittle.
Tip of The Day features ideas I hear about--not always ones I've tried. They sound good to me in theory and who knows--some of them (hopefully most of them) may be brilliant. Anyway, the point of this thread is to start some fun conversations. By all means jump in and add jokes, comments, and even your own tips, if you'd like.
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When I was younger I used to use vaseline.. but now that I'm older the heavy duty hand cream works so much better espically if its water based  |
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05-20-2010, 07:12 AM
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Location: Neither here nor there
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Will remember this.....am going to do some transplanting today.....hopefully.
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05-20-2010, 07:23 AM
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Location: Orlando, Florida
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Thanks Normie!
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05-20-2010, 07:52 AM
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Location: Virginia
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So do you use scrape your fingernails over bar soap, or pour liquid soap on them? Or does it matter?
This is a good tip for me. I hate hate HATE have to clean dirt out from under my fingernails, especially that Scott's topsoil that seems to have some sticky residue in it that won't come off. It's great for my plants but a nuisance to get off your hands.
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05-20-2010, 10:41 AM
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Great tip!
Seems I heard this one before...one of those old timey tips!
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05-20-2010, 11:53 AM
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Good for the nails and the garden. Maybe this is a sign I really need to get into the sport of gardening. Thank u Normie...  |
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05-20-2010, 12:34 PM
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Location: Portlandia "burbs"
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I will definitely try this. I'm not good at all about wearing garden gloves (they hinder freedom of finger movement).
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