The Sneeboer Large Spade brings pedigree and reputation to the garden in equal amounts - and whether you're turning over an allotment, vegetable patch or decorative border, this spade really delivers. Forged by hand to a design created to suit the Dutch market gardeners of West Friesland almost a hundred years ago, the spade comes with a solid ash handle and at the business end, a stainless steel blade complete with boot protectors for slicing through feisty soil.
• Hand forged in the finest stainless steel • Individually shaped, polished and sharpened by hand • Fitted with a fine quality ash handle • Provides sharpness, balance and comfort • Overall length 116cm • Blade length 28cm - width 17cm • Made with boot protectors to help generate greater downforce
As seen on BBC Gardeners World 2009.
"I can't do without my long-handled spade,” says Matthew Wilson - Curator and Head of Site RHS Harlow Carr, Harrogate, Garden Answers May 2005. To read Matthew's comments - and those of Chris Beardshaw and various magazine reviews on the Sneeboer Large Spade see below: