This single-piece, stainless steel trowel slices through dirt like a soil knife, but it scoops a better-than-average amount of dirt.
This indestructible, razor-sharp Wilcox trowel is a garden workhouse, ideal for planting, weeding, and breaking up soil. In truth it’s a multi-tool, working as a hand shovel when you’re backfilling transplants, a blade when you’re perforating a bag of soil or fertilizer, and an edger when you’re tidying up rowdy borders. (This versatility is also why it’s an indispensable addition to an urban gardening kit.) The trowel comes in a range of lengths. But we found the 14-inch version was long enough to make short work of substantial holes, without the need for a bigger, bulkier shovel. One staffer reported that, on a group planting day, a neighbor liked her trowel so much that she took it home—so do warn the recipient to keep tabs on their new score.
