How to Clean Garden Gloves

Your garden gloves take a beating when you're working in the yard. Sticky mud, grass stains, tree sap and other messy job residue cling to gloves, shortening their working lives and ruining their appearance. Here's an easy way to clean them.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Gardening Gloves
• Bars Of Soap

1. Leave the gloves on your hands after you finish working in the yard.

2. Wash your gloved hands with soap and water.

3. Rinse well with fresh water

4. Remove the gloves from your hands.

5. Lay them out flat on top of a water heater or other heat-producing appliance to dry.

Tips & Warnings

• The gloves will dry stiff as a board, but will soften up quickly as you wear them.
• Leave a bar of soap outside, near the water faucet.
• This method works for cotton, leather and rubber gloves.
• Don't leave rubber gloves on a hot surface.