Castor Trowel

This is a convenient hand-trowel with a turned beechwood handle and pointed blade, a good general-purpose trowel for the vegetable plot and flower border. The blade is curved on two planes, so it slices into the soil in a smooth action.

The blade of the trowel is 6 1/2 ins long and 3 1/4 ins wide.

Length 12ins, 30.5 cm.

Weight 8oz, 225g.

Price £29.00 including p&p

export price £24.68 excluding p&p.

European postage £1

Rest of the world £2.50

If this trowel is a gift, we now have two sizes of presentation box to show it at its best.

Large gift box with Lyra, Phoenix and Castor

This is the larger of the two available boxes. Price £1 each including UK postage, overseas postage 50p.

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Bob Flowerdew was a member of the panel on Gardeners' Question Time on BBC Radio 4 on 12th November 2006.

One question was:

"What technological advances are the panel currently enjoying?"

And Bob's answer:

"... an amazing trowel. The trouble is, so many trowels are blunt, they're heavy, they're thick and they're hard work. There's a new one that's been out for a few years. It's made of phosphor bronze. It's shaped more like a heart, it's got a point to it, it's curved, and when you stick it into the ground it just seems to bite its own way in. It makes digging holes in the hard soil easy work. And the edge is so hard and sharp like a sword. It doesn't blunt and I can use it to weed with as well. Absolutely 1000 times better than any other trowel on the market. Fantastic."

'Trowels from Implementations are unlike any other I’ve ever used. They may cost more than most trowels, but in every way you’ll be gaining: they feel like they were made for your hand only, they do the job better than any other and I’ve never known one decline in usability, never mind break. Get a cheap one and there’s no pleasure in its use and you’ll buy endless replacements. Buy one from Implementations and enjoy using it for years and years. There’s no choice as far as I'm concerned’.

Mark Diacono,

author of Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No.4 (by email)

'The Ferrari Dinos of Trowels', 'beautifully made, perfectly weighted, sharp and fit for purpose'.

Allan Jenkins in The Observer Magazine on 22nd June 2008. Read the full article here.

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