Sneeboer planting trowel heart shape

The shape of this hand tool has been around for 100 years - at least that's how our supplier sees it. The Sneeboers must know, after all, their tool forge has been based in the municipality of Enkhuizen on the west bank of the IJsselmeer for at least as long. In their range, the gardening tool with the traditional heart-shaped blade is logically named "old Dutch". A heart for tulips, daffodils and all other flower bulbs: every year, the gardeners at Keukenhof - the famous garden complex south of Amsterdam - prove anew that the planting trowel with its sharpened edges on both sides makes planting flower bulbs easier when they dig millions of planting holes and arrange their bulbs into large and small works of art. Hand-forged from stainless steel, the wide blade is extremely durable and can also be used to break up, turn and loosen the soil in the bed, for example to prepare planting sites for seedlings and young plants in quick succession. The significantly longer than usual handle, made of smoothly sanded ash wood that swings with the blade, allows for powerful gripping.

For over 100 years, the family of West Frisian blacksmith Jaap Sneeboer has been supplying their Dutch fellow citizens, who are known to be constantly busy with farming, dyke construction and horticulture, with the tools they need. Sneeboer uses two different stainless steels for his traditional Frisian horticultural tools in stainless steel: a higher-alloyed, tougher one for the springs and spouts of the handle holder and a lower-alloyed, more forgeable one for the actual functional parts. The individual structural elements are welded together and then ground and polished. All operations are carried out by hand.