Landscaper workwear in Staten Island

Landscaper workwear in Staten Island is the most weather-driven kit on any borough jobsite. You start at sunrise in dew, you are in mid-90s heat by noon, and on a fall cleanup day you are in fifty-degree drizzle by four in the afternoon. The gear has to peel on and off, breathe in the sun, and seal up in the wet. Quazi Supply at 519 Port Richmond Avenue stocks for landscapers specifically. Eleven to eight, seven days a week.

Pants. Lightweight, breathable, durable. The standard heavy Carhartt duck is the wrong call for July landscaping — you will overheat, you will dehydrate, you will hate the day. Carhartt Rugged Flex Rigby in the lighter weight, Dickies Cooling Cargo, Wrangler Riggs Workwear in the lighter weight. Reinforced seat and knee, but in a lighter fabric. Quick-dry matters — wet grass at six in the morning soaks heavy cotton and the cotton stays wet until lunch.

Tops. Sun-protective long sleeves. The skin cancer risk for landscapers is high — eight hours a day of summer sun for ten years adds up. UPF 30 or higher on a long-sleeve work shirt is the call. Carhartt Force lightweight long-sleeves with the UPF rating, Columbia PFG-style sun shirts (we stock when available), the Dickies Cooling long-sleeve. Light colors deflect heat better than dark — gray, tan, light blue.

Some landscapers run a short-sleeve t-shirt with arm sleeves. UV-rated cooling sleeves slide on and off — same UPF protection, more breathability. We carry these in a six-pack at the counter.

Boots. Waterproof is the rule. Wet grass, mud, irrigation lines that leak, the occasional puddle — your feet are wet by 8 AM if the boot is not sealed. Wolverine Floorhand WP, Timberland Pro Pit Boss WP, Red Wing Worx 5605, Rockrooster waterproof six-inch. Soft-toe for most landscapers. Composite or steel toe if you operate heavy equipment, do hardscaping with stone, or pull stumps and cut roots.

Slip-resistant outsole. Wet grass on a slope, wet decking around a pool you are servicing, wet cobbles on a hardscape — SR-rated outsole is the call. Vibram or MAXWear 90.

Gloves. Pruning gloves with a gauntlet cuff are the landscaper-specific glove. The gauntlet protects the forearm from rose canes, holly, hawthorn — the thorny stuff that draws blood from a regular work glove. Leather palm, gauntlet to mid-forearm. We stock the standard rose-pruning glove and the heavier rose-and-cactus glove that goes higher up the arm. For mowing and general work, a nitrile-dipped grip glove is fine. For tree work, an A5 cut-resistant glove for chainsaw-adjacent tasks.

Hi-vis. Class 2 for road-edge work. Almost every landscape job at some point requires you to be on a curb or in a roadway — loading mulch, pulling a trailer over, dropping debris. The vest goes on. Carhartt and Rothco Class 2, in stock M to 4XL. If your crew does a lot of arborist work or roadway tree care, Class 3 is the call for the more-visible work.

Sun protection beyond the long sleeves. A wide-brim hat with a chin strap. The Solar Republic and the Carhartt sun-shade caps with the neck flap. UV-rated wraparound safety glasses, ANSI Z87.1. Tinted for sun, clear for the morning.

Knee pads optional. Most landscaping work is standing. Plant-installation and small-tree-planting work is on the knees. A pocket-insert pad in a Double-Front pant, or a soft strap-on pad for the planting days.

PPE for chainsaw work. Chaps. Hearing protection — earplugs and earmuffs both. Eye protection. Hard hat with face shield for tree work. We do not stock the full chainsaw-protective kit deeply, but we have the basics — chaps, hearing protection, the Z87.1 wraparounds.

Insect protection. Tick season is May through October on Staten Island. We sell permethrin-treated pants and shirts (when in stock) and a permethrin spray that lasts six washes. Mosquito head nets for late-summer work in shaded yards.

Custom printing for crews. Shop name on the back of t-shirts and hoodies, embroidered chest, screen-printed back. Run on the building. Apply for a fleet account at /services/fleet-and-crew-accounts/apply for net-30 and volume pricing on five units or more.

Jobsite delivery if your crew is a guy short on uniforms and you have a job starting at seven in the morning — call us the night before, we will load the truck.

519 Port Richmond Ave. Eleven to eight, seven days a week. Sundays open. Spring landscape season starts at four in the morning some days; we are open early enough to outfit the crew for the day.