Jätkelle

It is shaped like a long shovel, but with a blade so long that it can be used to grasp and pry out even deep-reaching roots. The sharpened blade of our forged weeding trowel, notched at the tip, cuts through whatever comes in front of it, taking on even hard, compacted or heavily rooted soils. This hand tool demonstrates its versatility when caring for potted plants, as its narrow shape means it can also be used to loosen soil in containers and poke fertilizer holes. The weeding trowel comes from a tool smithy in Franconia.

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.