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Sneeboer Long Handled Fork and Mattock from Harrod Horticultural

Occasionally the garden requires some heavy work in difficult conditions – the new Sneeboer Long Handled Fork and Mattock is tough enough to cope with almost all soil types and situations.

Sneeboer Long Handled Fork and Mattock from Harrod Horticultural

Occasionally the garden requires some heavy work in difficult conditions - the new Sneeboer Long Handled Fork and Mattock is tough enough to cope with almost all soil types and situations.

This ingenious Sneeboer design pairs a robust mattock blade with a sharp, three-tined fork in a 23cm wide head, allowing you to both break up the most compacted soil and create a reasonable tilth - without changing tools. This double-purpose tool gets to grips with cultivating soil and decimating weeds and is particularly good when you need to work between plants.

The fork side is great for loosening up compacted soil and the mattock blade can chop away and dig in deeply for weeds as well as making seed drills or thinning out.

The mattock blade measures 10cm long by 6.5cm wide and the fork tines are 10cm in length, with a 2.5cm gap between each
The solid ash handle is 150cm long, giving you ample opportunity to generate a hefty, soil-busting swing.

"I used this digging tool for breaking up the compacted soil in my borders, prior to planting. Its two heads meant I could use the forked side for breaking up clumps of earth, while the mattock made short work of digging the beds. The long handle enabled me to get to the ground beneath my shrubs, which is not so easy to reach with a spade. My only quibble is that I would have liked the blades to have been slightly bigger so that I could have covered a larger area in a shorter amount of time, although this may have impacted on manoevrability." Rating ****.
Tested by Laura Fanthorpe, 'Tried and Tested', Garden Answers magazine,
June 2008.