{"id":4959,"date":"2013-04-11T18:25:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T17:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2014-09-27T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T14:28:36","slug":"gardening-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/gardening-gloves\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts, Gloves and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I posted an Instagram picture of yet another pair of gardening gloves that have bitten the dust and asked for recommendations for better quality ones.<\/p>\n

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I used to be a bare handed gardener until I was pulling out weeds in the front garden and discovered the hard way (ewww) that our dog had started pooping in the flower beds… needless to say from that moment on I’ve worn gardening gloves and preferably intact!<\/p>\n

Within a short space of time I received a response. The Secret Garden Centre (@irishsecretgardener on Instagram) informed Paula (@palulac) and myself that the pair of gloves she’d purchased from them were Showa gloves<\/a>. Meanwhile Brian from The Secret Garden (@_secretgarden_ on twitter) tweeted to Showa<\/a> that I was looking for gloves and within minutes I’d had a reply from them offering to send me a sample. Margaret from Oldfarm <\/a>replied to my initial tweet and informed us all that she had a pair of gloves she was delighted with and lo and behold they were from Showa too! (Notice a pattern here…..)<\/p>\n

@greensideupveg<\/a> my gardening gloves are ‘showa’. Have them a year. Longest I’ve ever had a pair!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Oldfarm (@OLDEFARM) April 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n