Gardening Shoes

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by clkeiper

You all live on level land? I about killed myself more than once wearing crocs, they are not good on a slippery slope. about the second accident they went in the trash never to used by me again. You all stay safe wearing them.

Me too no traction.
If I do serous work I wear my Red Wing lace up steel toed work boots.

[Nan_PA_6b]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Me too no traction.
If I do serous work I wear my Red Wing lace up steel toed work boots.

Probably the only safe footwear while using a rototiller.

Nan

[Father'sDaughter]

Crocs for the no-shovel, raised bed gardener who hates shoes, tromps across the back lawn to get to the garden, then usually kicks them off to climb up on a milk crate or overturned bucket to tie tomato vines to stakes --

[clkeiper]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Me too no traction.
If I do serous work I wear my Red Wing lace up steel toed work boots.

I probably should but I wear shoes at least.

[Worth1]

Picks big grape hoes and post hole diggers will cut your toes off.
Worth

[clkeiper]

I try to stay away from that stuff, too. I don't go bare foot ever anymore. my feet have gotten too tender. I should have a pair of work boots, but those are too hard to kneel in.

[ddsack]

For sure different types of garden, different needs for footwear!

Working on real dirt in a big market garden, using heavy duty tools and doing maintenance rototilling between rows for weeding and so forth will need heavy duty footwear. In a smaller home garden, often in raised beds surrounded by a lawn, the heavy prep stuff if used at all, is used at the beginning and end of the season, so most of mid-season light work you can flit around in whatever is comfortable.

[joseph]

Barefoot is my gardening attire of choice.

[Worth1]

Hook worms

[Nan_PA_6b]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Hook worms

Iguanas.

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[Nattybo!]

Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

Iguanas.

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Humans can get hookworms by walking barefoot.

I have been searching for a pair of gardening boots. Something with a steel shank for shovel work. The few pairs that I have found (Sears, Walmart) also had steel toes that painfully rubbed the top of my big toe and were kind of heavy. So, I am still looking for that perfect garden footwear.

[clkeiper]

Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

Iguanas.

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there was a story just this week of a couple who went on vacation and walked barefoot on the sand. got hookworms in their feet. it was disgusting looking.

[Nan_PA_6b]

Ew, do I have to worry about this at beaches?

Nan

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

Ew, do I have to worry about this at beaches?

Nan

Not where you live due to temperature and sanitation I would suspect.
But think twice in warm climate developing countries without proper sanitation and sewers.

That is why my idea of a summer vacation is in places like Norway the Netherlands Iceland Denmark and Sweden.
Less bugs.

Worth

[rhines81]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Not where you live due to temperature and sanitation I would suspect.
But think twice in warm climate developing countries without proper sanitation and sewers.

That is why my idea of a summer vacation is in places like Norway the Netherlands Iceland Denmark and Sweden.
Less bugs.

Worth

Been to Norway (once, very expensive!), The Netherlands (more than 10 times, probably less than 20 though, lost count), Iceland (2 times, once in February and it wasn't too bad), Denmark (only at CPH airport passing through), Sweden (almost, but haven't been there yet)