Perennial spade

The perennial spade is ideal for working in narrow, densely planted beds or for digging in a kneeling position. Half spade, half flower trowel, this handy tool supports you when digging out roots, loosening the soil or preparing planting holes. The pointed blade made from forged manganese-boron steel is slightly sharpened at the edges, making it easy to work through firm soil and cut through thinner roots. Whatever gardening work you want to do, the ash wood handle with practical T-handle is very comfortable to grip. We source our perennial spade from a forge in Upper Franconia that can look back on over 200 years of family tradition.

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.