Hand cultivator

The hand cultivator keeps what its name promises - with the help of its three long, powerful tines, it digs through (almost) any soil. Thus it loosens incrustations, loosens compaction and brings air to the roots, and it proves itself in the densely planted garden bed as well as in the raised bed box. The handy size of this forged tool also enables mobile use in grave maintenance. It is manufactured in a more than 220-year-old forge in Upper Franconia.

The Krumpholz family knows a thing or two about forging. Based in the Franconian Forest, their ancestors acquired their first own hammer mill - the Guttenberger Hammer - in 1799 and were already producing tools and other everyday objects from forged iron back then. Today, the company's fortunes are in the hands of the eighth generation. The garden tools that leave the production site, which is still in its old location but has long since been modernized and expanded, are tools of the highest quality: shaped to their intended use under the weight of the forging hammer, compacted and reinforced where necessary, fitted with sharpened edges or blades and equipped with high-quality ash wood handles. Free-form forging, as practiced at Krumpholz, requires special skill and a sense of proportion. The steel used, a Swedish steel with a chrome-molybdenum content, is tough, strong and easy to clean.