On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 12:08:23 -0400, Stephen Henning wrote:

While in the UK and visiting the Chelsea Flower Show, I discovered
something that I have been looking for unsuccessfully for a while. Long
gloves to use in the spring when bringing up the plants I sent on the
bottom of the pond the previous fall. I have been using a set of
industrial gloves that are fairly long but wanted a longer pair.

At the Chelsea flower show they had lots of "pond gloves" which sold for
from $5 to $20. I normally wear a 32" shirt sleeve and these gloves
cover my entire arm.

A google search for "pond gloves" turned up a number of sources.

The ones I got a

http://www.worldofwater.com/gloves.htm

I have these, work great! Definitely a solution in cold water. Prior to
them though I found the way to beat cold water was to have a bucket of warm
water next to the pond. Do some work, soak in the warm bucket for a bit,
and do some more work. ~ jan

~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~