The shape of this tool reveals everything about its function. Curved in a semicircle, the forged manganese-boron steel spade blade with its sharpened edge specializes in exactly one activity: digging round holes of all kinds. Whether a planting hole, post hole or foundation hole - it makes a really round job of it even when you are faced with the task of working in a small space in densely planted beds. To protect the soles of your gardening shoes, the blade of this planting spade from the Krumpholz forge has welded-on treads. This allows you to help out in harder or dry soil with a firm kick. Good to know: The extended spout provides additional stability at the particularly stressed connection point between the spade blade and spade handle.

The Krumpholz family knows a thing or two about forging. Based in the Franconian Forest, their ancestors acquired their first own hammer mill - the Guttenberger Hammer - in 1799 and were already producing tools and other everyday objects from forged iron back then. Today, the company's fortunes are in the hands of the eighth generation. The garden tools that leave the production site, which is still in its old location but has long since been modernized and expanded, are tools of the highest quality: shaped to their intended use under the weight of the forging hammer, compacted and reinforced where necessary, fitted with sharpened edges or blades and equipped with high-quality ash wood handles. Free-form forging, as practiced at Krumpholz, requires special skill and a sense of proportion. The steel used, a Swedish steel with a chrome-molybdenum content, is tough, strong and easy to clean.