Time spent outside gardening can be good for the soul but not so great for your hands. In addition to the dirt left under your fingernails and the weed-pulling and pruning of thorny plants, an ...

Gardening doesn’t do the hands any favours. Aside from thorns, sharp twigs and rough bark causing inevitable injury, the worst offender is soil, because it literally draws all moisture out of the skin ...

The other day I received a gift that enraged my husband. It was a pair of gardening gloves. Colour: shocking pink. Sonia Day is a freelance contributor to the Star.

In general, I am an anti-glove person. I like planting peas with my fingers, placing each seed in the trench, in soil as crumbly as chocolate cake. I also like pruning grapevines. It is much nicer ...