What is a planting garden trowel?
What is a planting garden trowel? |
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A planting garden trowel has a flat blade with a pointed tip. It is the garden trowel most similar to a builder’s trowel. | |||
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The planting garden trowel’s blade is sometimes described as heart-shaped. | |||
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It is very useful for planting flowers in hard soils due to its pointed tip. The blade is smaller than other garden trowels, which makes it suitable for use in confined spaces, such as in hanging baskets. | |||
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A planting garden trowel can also be used to dig out stones, which makes it useful as an archaeologist’s trowel. | |||
What sizes of planting garden trowel are available? |
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The length of a planting garden trowel blade can range from 215.9mm (8.5″) to 317.5mm (12.5″). The longer it is, the more leverage a user will have when digging in hard soil. | |||
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The width of the blade ranges from 44.5mm (1.8″) to 114.3mm (4.5″).
The blade length can range from 63.5mm (2.5″) to 152.4mm (6″). |
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A smaller blade allows you to dig in small, tight spaces, such as in between plants in a plant pot. | |||
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The weight of a planting garden trowel can range from 113.4g (4oz) to 311.8g (11oz). | |||
