Comments on: How do you keep fingernails clean when gardening?

By: cyndi m

cyndi m — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:49:43 +0000

Run your finger nails across a bar of hand soap so that the soap fills up the section under the nail at the fingertips. When you’re done gardening and wash your hands you will find that the soap will disappear and will leave nice, clean fingernails as well. Hope this works for you.

By: Portabella Princess

Portabella Princess — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:31:17 +0000

Where a leather glove. I use the soft cotton gardening gloves then throw them in warm water wash, and hang to try, they wash up great. Martha Stewart at Kmart sells a cheap pair. Plus I like that they are cleaned after each use, poison ivy may have been pulled.

By: johnmiriani@sbcglobal.net

johnmiriani@sbcglobal.net — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:50:39 +0000

go to home depot or lowes and check out their glove collection, i am sure that you will find a glove to live with. i did

By: Big red

Big red — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:37:04 +0000

Get some small rubber gloves or food prep latex gloves and snip the ends of the fingers off. Use strapping tape to tape them on if they are still a bit too big.

By: Lizzy B

Lizzy B — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:09:06 +0000

may i suggest lemon juice and sugar mixed together and rubbed well in to the nails and hands

By: gawillow

gawillow — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:42:13 +0000

Wear gloves. Or, if you don’t like wearing them, dig your fingernails into soap so it wedges under. If you’re also working with water, you’ll have to dig into the soap again. To get the dirt out of your skin, use a knuckle brush & lava soap. Then moisturize your hands afterwards with a bit of olive oil

To clean gloves: Put the gloves on, take a bar of soap outside and wet the gloves under a faucet or hose. Soap up the gloves and scrub them, then rinse, remove and let dry.

I also found this site for more information on how to clean gardening hands!

By: Sally 4th

Sally 4th — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:01:22 +0000

I’ve heard of scratching a bar of soap first, before you begin your gardening, so the soap gets imbedded under your fingernails. Should make washing up a snap!

By: oldtimer

oldtimer — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:22:06 +0000

try a cloth glove

By: dimpelmum

dimpelmum — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:59:13 +0000

Well my father was a handy man always doing odd shops and also a Gardner, he never wore gloves and his hand looked like he´d been helping the moles with their tunnels. When ever he had to go some where important ,like a wedding or dinner dance & so on, he peeled the potatoe´s , the starch from the potatoes removed every last bit of dirt from under the nails, So start peeling.

By: mstrywmn

mstrywmn — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:14:32 +0000

I was going to suggest gloves, but you know that already. If they make your hands too hot, then how about putting petroleum jelly under your nails, this will make them much easier to clean with a nail brush & soap & water when you’re finished gardening.