This effective smaller spade is suitable for both sexes with a solid ash handle and the added advantage of boot protectors, it is ideal for digging over a vegetable border, digging a trench or slicing through turf.

Sneeboer Ladies Spade from Harrod Horticultural

This effective smaller spade is suitable for both sexes with a solid ash handle and the added advantage of boot protectors, it is ideal for digging over a vegetable border, digging a trench or slicing through turf.

• Hand forged in the finest stainless steel
• Individually shaped, polished and sharpened by hand
• Fitted with a fine quality ash handle
• Sharpness, balance and comfort makes this an exceptional tool
• Anyone who has ever used a Sneeboer tool will never want to use anything else
• Ladies Spade Overall length 106cm
• Blade width 15cm
  
  Helen Yemm, tested this spade for The English Garden magazine; here's what she wrote:
  
  "Another spade with an excellent boot-saving lip. I find Sneeboer's hand tools good, but this ladies' spade, with its small stainless steel head, although exceptionally sharp, was heavy and straight. The long 106cm (42in) ash-wood handle is suitable for either sex and is clearly designed to be used lever-style, to save your back."