Creative Calibration Gardening Yard Stainless Steel Trowel Shovel Spade 11"

The wife uses this for our vegetable and herb garden, which is about 400 square feet. She loves it. I broke our last small trowel; the weld snapped between the handle and the blade. This one will have no such problem. It is simple, with one piece of stainless steel. So far, no rust and no bending, despite the hard clay. I will say that good gloves are a good idea with this. Because it is a single piece of stainless steel, it can be a little slick, especially with muddy or sweaty hands. I wouldn't mind some texture on the handle to aid in grip, but I used it to help put in some landscaping timbers, and with leather gloves I had no problems.

This small hand trowel shovel is made of stainless steel (CRES), well formed, polished smooth, excellent finish. We've had this over a year, always left outside, stuck in the dirt, gets watered and rained on often, still looks like new. This is a perfect example of excellent tools outlasting cheaper carbon steel or plastic gardening tools 5+ times over...

I liked that it was all metal so it can be cleaned and the sharp spade made it very useful. But it bent after 2 uses and now I have to be very careful when digging trenches.

This thing is awesome. Has measurements to pinpoint how deep you dig, very sturdy handle. You can tell this will last for quite a while. And for such a great price, very happy.

If this review helps in any way Positive or Negative Please hit HELPFUL!!! It will help encourage me to continue my real reviews of products I've purchased. Likes: * Wow do I love the looks of this shovel * Relatively light weight (picture has OZ and GM weights) * Comes with strap * Would work well if only used with lightweight store bought potting soil Dislikes: * Weak neck bends under one shovel of moderately compacted soil and no roots No I would not buy this again, returned day I received it. I almost kept it as a conversation piece, but I need a working shovel. Thank you for reading my review: Again Please give this review a thumbs up. It is real. I do answer questions if in comments. I've been on Amazon as a customer for over twenty years, and now a top 500 reviewer. I don't get compensated for my reviews. (Not that I wouldn't like to be.) I pay for Amazon Prime so I get any of the perks that come with my Prime membership.

I bought this for my wife because she was complaining about getting a blister from the garden trowel we already had. This one is not only smoother and, therefore, less likely to cause a blister but it is also sturdier than the plastic handled one she bought at a big box store. It works great and does what it is supposed to ... without causing any blisters.

So either I've been hit by some radiation making me awesome in strength... or this is rather flimsy. When I rammed the trowel into the earth and pried it up I was admittedly surprised when I bent the trowel as though it was made of puddy! Rejoicing in my new found super strength I bent it back true! Unfortunately the lack of general destruction at my touch suggests that the trowel sucks rather than super powers. My wife also wrecked the poorly made little hand shovel... look elsewhere for your small shovel needs unless you'll be exclusively using it for very loose soil

I like to leave my gardening shovel out in the yard. This has nothing to rust or rot. It is a great little shovel.

Price was good, but believe trowel is thin and will bend upon use.