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Length 3ft 9ins, (114cm)

Blade 9 1/2 ins x 6ins wide ( 24 x 15cm)

Weight 1.5kg

Price £90.00, including p&p

export price £76.60 excluding p&p.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Auva Spade

'My favourite spade'

said Radio 4 gardening expert John Cushnie of his Auva Spade. 

'I dropped hints one Christmas and my son bought it for me', he said in the MySpace column of the Sunday Telegraph..

Read the full article here. 

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Auva is a slender, elegant border spade. It has a steam-bent ash shaft and a beech T-handle. The head is work-hardened tin bronze, curved in two planes for additional strength. The pointed end to the blade is very sharp, allowing it to slice easily into the soil. The lip at the top of the blade saves your wellies, too.

 

'Most Wanted'

was the verdict of the Gardening Which? testers on the Auva Spade. 

'I'd swap my normal tool for this spade', said one of the testers in the October 2008 issue of the magazine.

A team of professional gardeners trialled nine unusual garden tools - and the Auva came top!

 

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