As temperatures continue to rise across the country, you might be interested in spending time outdoors and maintaining a lush garden at home. Before you start pruning, planting, and digging, you need to secure the correct gear.
Gardening experts previously told us in our gardening supplies guide that they consider gloves and boots to be two staples. Rebecca Sears, the chief gardening guru for Green Garden Products, noted that our hands are essential to working with plants, making gardening gloves the most important gardening tool of all.
You can order gardening gloves from hardware stores like The Home Depot, ACE Hardware, and Lowe’s, as well as mega-stores with gardening departments like Walmart, Target, and Amazon. Other popular retailers like Wayfair, Food52, and Uncommon Goods also sell gardening gloves. To help you improve your gardening game, we’ve rounded up the # 1 best sellers of some of the favorite stores of shopping readers and shared a pair of gloves from a doctor-recommended UPF fashion brand.
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Best gardening gloves overall: Showa Atlas
Showa Atlas gloves
Several gardening experts have named these gloves as one of the best garden tools out there. Erin Benzakein, founder of Floret Flowers, previously called these gloves “easy to clean”. They come in five sizes – Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, and XX-Large – and are made with nitrile for easy movement.
Best UPF gardening gloves: Coolibar
Coolibar UPF 50+ Unisex Sawyer UV sun gloves
According to medical experts we previously consulted in our guides on UPF fashion and UPF hats, Coolibar is one of the top UPF clothing brands. According to dermatologist Charles Crutchfield III, MD, UPF is how much sunscreen fabric can provide, and UPF garments typically hit a maximum of 50. Coolibar’s gardening gloves have 4-way stretch and come in prints and colors like that classic black and coral multi bustling paisley made.
Best Amazon gardening gloves: Famoy
Famoy Claw gardening gloves
These unique looking gloves are Amazon’s best-selling pair of gardening gloves, and at $ 4 per capita, it is the second cheapest option on our list. Because the gloves have claws on the tips, Famoy recommends using them when digging weeds, planting, and working with soil. They are available in three colors. (If you want more colors, you’ll have to go for the # 2 best seller instead.)
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Best Walmart Gardening Gloves: Hyper Tough
Hyper sturdy leather glove
Hyper Tough’s gloves are Walmart’s best-selling pair of gardening gloves and its most notable cheap buy. They have leather accents on the fingertips and palms of the gloves, as well as wrist protection thanks to the safety cuffs.
Best Lowe’s gardening gloves: style selection
Style selection women’s gardening gloves
Most of the gloves on our list are unisex gloves, but sometimes you want a women’s glove for a tighter fit and a more feminine pattern, like the blue and white print on these gardening gloves. Lowe’s # 1 bestseller is made from a combination of 4-way stretch elastane and brown grain leather.
Best Home Depot Gardening Gloves: Digz
Digz women’s gloves (3 pairs)
Home Depot’s best-selling pair of gardening gloves is the only multipack on our list. (The # 1 bestseller is only available in the store.) The digz latex-free gardening gloves were specially made for women, although anyone with hands can use these gloves. These rubber coated gloves are also textured so you have a better grip when digging holes, pulling out weeds and plants.
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