If you're going to garden with hand tools, get yourself something to protect your hands and knees: gloves supple enough to let you manipulate tools, and knee pads or a cushioned mat to give your joints some relief from the hard soil. Shown: Womanswork Original Glove, $25; UltraLight knee pads (about $8) and kneeling cushion (about $4), both from Fiskars. Womanswork.com
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