What is a Dutch trowel?
The traditional Dutch design uses a lever action instead of a digging one, hence the elongated handle. You simply plunge the flattened blade with its pointed tip into the ground and pull the handle forward to create a V-shaped planting pocket. As you move along, the next insertion closes the hole before it. The Sneeboer planting trowels are the garden tool of choice of the gardeners at the Dutch Keukenhof Exhibition where it is used every year to make the plant holes for millions of bulbs. In addition to that, and as a testimony to its usefulness, it is the favorite garden tool of English tv-gardener Monty Don!This Planting Trowel in the Old Dutch Style by Sneeboer Tools has sharp sides and a pointed end allowing you to easily cut through the soil, suitable for all your planting and gardening needs and is a favourite tool of Monty Don.