Comments on: Six on Saturday – April 21st

By: Paddy

Paddy — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 08:49:01 +0000

Thanks – I’ll have a look in Halfords and see what they’ve got. 🙂

By: Paddy

Paddy — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 08:47:06 +0000

Thanks John – I’ve never heard of Showa Gloves before, so I’ll definitely have a look and see if I can find them in a local shop so I can try on a pair.
Thanks for the tips on how to sort out the rust, and yep, the bucket part is plastic, so I won’t be bothering to do anything with that part!

By: @cavershamjj

@cavershamjj — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:03:29 +0000

Yes a stiff wire brush, and you can buy a rust treatment in Halfords. Meant for cars but it’ll work just as well. Then a can of primer spray paint. Job’s a goddun.

By: John Kingdon

John Kingdon — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 17:15:35 +0000

Have a look at Showa Gloves (at Amazon https://amzn.to/2HjEjoZ) which lots of lady gardeners with smaller hands recommend. I’ve also heard good reports of Gold Leaf ladies’ gloves which places like Harrod sell. Strawberries don’t like waterlogged roots and if yours were too wet for too long, you may have lost them, sorry. As for your (t)rusty cart, the issue is not so much the rust but the remaining powder coating. For the rusty bits, seek out some Hammerite direct to rust paint (make sure it says direct to rust on the tin, there are other direct to… versions). It will adhere OK to firm powder coated surfaces BUT often the coating will start to become separated from the metal around the edges of the rusty patches so you need to check carefully that it is sound and remove any coating that isn’t back to bare metal. That’s all the preparation you need to do. Then paint on a coat (or two if needed) of the Hammerite paint. The bucket looks like plastic; it it’s metal I wouldn’t bother to paint it as you’ll scratch the paint off pretty quickly.