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:
This Sneeboer Space Saving Tool Rack will hold four full sized Sneeboer tools with 'T' handles, freeing up valuable storage space in your potting shed and keeping the gaulaity, hand-forged garden tools out of harm's way and in tip-top condition. The rack itself is made from top grade pine and beechwood dowels hold the handles of the tools safely in position.
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• Holds four garden tools 28cm high x 28cm deep • Manufactured from top quality pine with beechwood dowels • Designed to hold full length 'T' handled Sneeboer tools • Fixings not included as we don't know what type of surface you'll be attaching it to!
What The Experts Say... "Install tool racks to give each piece of garden equipment its own space. Buy ready-made racks from companies such as Harrod Horticultural..." RHS advice: Shed tidy, bird cake and more - compiled by the RHS Horticultural Advisory Service, Telegraph Gardening, 21 November 2008
"Eliminate the chaos in your garden shed with this wooden tool rack made to store large, heavy-duty tools such as spades and forks. Designed by Dutch toolmaker Sneeboer, it is made from pine and beech... from Harrod Horticultural. Smaller tool racks for hand tools are also available, as well as a comprehensive range of superior garden tools."News - Outside Interests by Clare Foster, House and Garden Magazine, May 2008