Garden Trowels

Why Choose a Trowel For Your Garden?

The quintessential gardening tool, garden trowels can be used when planting seeds, uprooting weeds and transplanting plants to name just a few jobs. To suit this wide array of applications, each of the trowels, produced by leading brands including Faithfull, has been designed using high-quality materials and finished with comfortable, ergonomic grips.

Garden trowels are essential tools for gardening and landscaping tasks, and there are several reasons why you might choose to have one or more in your gardening toolkit:

• Planting: Trowels are ideal for planting small to medium-sized plants, flowers, and bulbs. Their scoop-shaped blade makes it easy to dig holes in the soil, remove plants from containers, and transplant seedlings.

• Weeding: Garden trowels are handy for digging out weeds, especially those with deep roots. The sharp edge of a trowel can help you get under the weeds and lift them out of the soil.

• Soil Mixing and Amendment: Trowels can be used to mix soil amendments or fertilizers into the garden bed. They allow you to incorporate compost, mulch, or other additives evenly into the soil.

• Transplanting: If you need to move established plants within your garden, a garden trowel can help you dig up the plant with its root ball intact, making it easier to replant in a new location.

• Durability: Good-quality garden trowels are typically made from durable materials like stainless steel or carbon steel, which are resistant to rust and corrosion. This durability ensures they can withstand regular use and exposure to the elements.

Of course, for more specific jobs you can also find yourself a more design-tailored trowel. These include narrower transplanting trowels which limit the degree to which the surrounding soil is disturbed when you’re your plants and potting trowels with sharper points for digging small holes when seeding.

Like many other of our hand tools, to ensure their long-term durability many of our garden hand trowels boast a stainless steel construction. This not only makes them far more durable but also improves resistance against moisture damage. Handle finishes range from plastic to more rustic ash wood.