Cait highly recommends Bionic Gloves - made by the people who make gloves for baseball players.

These well-made gloves - the only ones endorsed by the Arthritis Foundation - support your hands with layers of stitching and padding. They come in styles for gardening, driving, tennis, horseback riding and golf.

Cait uses them more as utility gloves than down-and-dirty gardening gloves. The gloves make it easier for her to grip and hold shovels and rakes and to handle the vibration from the lawn mower. And she finds they lessen her hand fatigue when she’s paddling a canoe or kayaking.

For just plain old messy jobs like transplanting seedlings and filling containers with soil she uses cheapo Dollar Store gloves to spare her Bionics from getting soggy and dirty.

As for fitting properly, Cait says they do stretch out a bit and need to fit snugly in order to perform properly. So buy the size that JUST fits.