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Gardening Blog - thebroadroom.net: Exam gloves for gardening
Exam gloves for gardening
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
at 9:36 AM (Pacific)
I use these--those ubiquitous nitrile exam gloves--for transplanting stuff. You can slip a pair of leather gardening gloves over these if you're working with thorns...but the exam gloves alone are great for transplanting.
You don't have to throw them away right away; you can use them several times.
Oh yeah, I checked OSH. They didn't have codling moth traps at all...just a rather intriguing generic moth trap with two batteries and two cartridges. I checked their moth list but codling wasn't on it, so I passed.
As far as the pocket gophers...all they had were the usual traps and poisons, neither of which has worked for me consistently. They did however have a Grants castor oil spray, so I got that ($16).
The idea is to soak your yard with the spray (it attaches to your garden hose). The castor oil supposedly soaks into the ground and coats everything that the gophers eat. The gophers get indigestion and bugger off i.e. leave your yard.
shrugs It's definitely not as good as something that would kill the gophers, but I don't care. It's impossible to kill the number of gophers we have around here anyway. I'll be happy to get them out of here without poisoning the entire yard.Labels: pocket gophers
 
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