Using Gloves You'll Love

[Music playing] David Epstein: Welcome to growing wisdom and we have a little bit of a treat for you today. I am here with Harriet Zbikowski. We do not want this to sound like an infomercial but you did start your own glove company which is kind of cool. Tell me a little bit about that. Harriet Zbikowski: Well, I garden professionally for years. I consider myself a professional horticulturist and my friends and I used to go to thrift shops and tag sales. We buy the old dress gloves and they were great because they really fit but in the old days they were made out of cotton and they wear out very quickly so this glove is based on a classic dress glove design but using modern simplex nylon and lycra spandex. They are great gloves, they keep the soil out, your hand stay clean, you do not have to take them off to do all the fine work garden requires and gardeners love them. David Epstein: And guys can use them, these are nice guy colored glove. Harriet Zbikowski: Absolutely, they are for everybody. David Epstein: And one of the things we want to do is sort of just use them today. We are actually going to go into the garden, we are going to do some picking of tomatoes, we are going to do a little weeding and then we are going to do some planting. Alright, so let’s go. [Music Playing] What I like about these gloves Harriet, honestly, is that they are almost like my hands are bare. Sometimes I find that the bulkier gloves it is hard to grip. Harriet Zbikowski: You cannot feel what you are doing with the big glove on, so you really need a fore fitting glove. (Demonstration) David Epstein: I like this Zucchini flowers here. You cook with them at all? Harriet Zbikowski: Yeah, a little sate and some people like to stuff them with cheese. David Epstein: And the baby Zucchini I like because you can use them in salads or deeps or things like that, so these are really good. Harriet Zbikowski: I love to it. I mean it is very therapeutic. David Epstein: It is very zen, I am constantly telling my folks here at growing wisdom that weeding is something, it is a necessity. It also makes the garden—I like the way it looks afterward. So, this is a sedum, it is Angelina and we are going to put it with this blood grass, the Japanese blood grass and it is just a nice contrast. You really can sort of loosen this up, got to tease the roots to really get them in their. Whenever you plant you want to go as dip as the plant was in the pot and a little bit wider. Harriet Zbikowski: You know your soil is really nice. Just need a little bit of amendment and we know sedums are very easy care anyway. David Epstein: Yeah, exactly. Alright, well thank you very much Harriet for coming out to growing wisdom today and I hope you enjoyed our three things, picking vegetables, doing some weeding and doing some planting and let us see how clean our hands our. Come back every week, the growingwisdom.com. [Music playing]