Finger nails and gardening

Just to enlarge…..my nails are short, the soap is best used when hard and dry and you only need a little soap, not great lumps of soap scrapings…..believe me the tiniest bit works! Yes, I still use a nail brush when handwashing but the dirt just lifts away.

I tried this some years ago. I didn't like the feeling of "stuff under my nails". I find a good hand wash, nails scrubbed with a brush, and a nail file applied as a "spade" works fine.

Short nails help too: less dirt goes in, less to excavate 🙂

My MiL always did this - I don't have bar soap any more but I do have "garden nails".

This sounds like a great idea. I will be trying it next time.

Oh the thought of walking around with soap scrapings under my nails is cringy I just give them a good scrub with a nail brush after I get home

I’m a gardener who keeps nails short. Even so could not bring myself to scrape them on a bar of soap even if it was quite soft