The Long Handled Stone Scratcher and Knife from Sneeboer will certainly make the job of kneeling down to remove unwelcome weeds from paths and paving a thing of the past. It is a thankless task that doesn’t do much for your back and knees either.

Occasionally the garden requires some heavy work in difficult conditions – the new Sneeboer Long Handled Fork and Mattock is tough enough to cope with almost all soil types and situations. This ingenious Sneeboer design pairs a robust mattock blade with a sharp, three-tined fork in a 23cm wide head, allowing you to both break up the most compacted soil and create a reasonable tilth - without changing tools. This double-purpose tool gets to grips with cultivating soil and decimating weeds and is particularly good when you need to work between plants.

The fork side is great for loosening up compacted soil and the mattock blade can chop away and dig in deeply for weeds as well as making seed drills or thinning out.

Although the title insists it’s one for the ladies this Sneeboer long handled hoe has so many uses (combining the accuracy of a hand tool with the reach of a full sized hoe) we are sure that the man of the garden will be soon be raiding the potting shed to find it.