8. Keep Your Fingernails Nice and Clean

Before getting down and dirty with your favorite plants, grab a bar of soap and scrape your fingernails across it. The soap fills the space under your nails, leaving less room for soil, plant sap, and green stains to settle there.

After gardening, wash your hands normally. The residual soap should rinse away along with most of the dirt. It's simple, inexpensive, and much easier than scrubbing soil out from under every fingernail at the end of the day. But also, you can just use gardening gloves.