For years I used cheap reversible gloves, which were incredibly easy to use because any two gloves would do the trick. But after my favorite garden center stopped carrying them I 
couldn’t find them anywhere.
The gloves I settled on as a substitute are also cheap and I buy them by the dozen, but they’re not reversible and I usually grab two rights or two lefts. I posted once asking for ways to solve this (petty by any standard) problem, and also suggested to glove-makers that they make all left gloves one color and all right gloves another for us hurried gardeners too busy or distracted by new cultivars (or something) to check the leftness or rightness of each glove.
I know that in the 12-Step world this would be called a higher-order problem, but still, it IS fun to find the solution. Especially when it’s so damn simple, like the two white glove buckets you see here. I drop right gloves in the bucket on the right, and so on, and I can’t tell you how pleased I was with myself for thinking this up.
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If you buy them by the dozen, couldn’t you dye them yourself? Or maybe sew a cute button on lefties and a different button on the righties. At the very least, a fat permanent marker will work too.
I have never used gloves in the garden. Of course that means my hands get very dirty and look terrible. In the summer I don’t even try to keep my nails polished. I think the main reason I don’t wear gloves is because I love the feel of the earth as I dig down into the earth to plant seedlings. Thanks for sharing
I love the idea of separate containers for right and left gloves! I’ve noticed, though, that most of my garden gloves seem to disappear to wherever the lost socks go…I get distracted while gardening, take them off and never see them again. Different colored gloves are a great idea too!
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