Garden Works The Original Soil Scoop™ Comfort Grip Handle Red

We are heavy gardeners and use this tool regularly. they last for years.

I love THIS TOOL! It's an amazing reinvention of a garden trowel. It's larger so it moves more dirt at a time. The "teeth" along the sides will cut tough roots of weeds, etc. Whatever you need to do while digging in dirt--this thing does it easier and better! I have one myself and liked it so well, I bought 5 for Christmas presents!

Great garden tool

This is not much of a scoop, but I bought two of them. To me a scoop is something that will scoop up considerable quantities of whatever, in this case soil. But I can scoop up far more soil using two hands than with this tool. And it isn't very good at breaking up clay or cutting roots either. What it excels at is scraping soil and rock. For example I have areas with several inches of drainage rock on top of soil I need to excavate. This scoop will quickly remove the rock and leave the soil. Other times I need to remove soil at the bottom of my planter boxes, soil which has adhered to the rusted sheet metal used to stop gopher invasions. This will nicely scape the soil away without damaging the sheet metal.The best garden scoops I have found are commonly used as ice scoops. There are several different sizes that work very well, depending on the clearances of the area you are excavating. They are heavy duty, but very reasonably priced. This is the primary one I use.  Adcraft ALS-9 38 oz Capacity, 9" Length x 4.5" Width, Mirror Finish, Heavy Duty Cast Aluminum Scoop with Contoured Handle Overall this is a great garden scraper, but a horrible garden scoop. That is why I gave it only 4 stars.

It does seem rather expensive for its size, but t is used everyday more than any other item I own. Works well, does the job, sturdy, doesn't take up too much room so stores well, does all sorts of garden-related things and best of all, very, very quiet. I used one for decades daily in stony clay soil and must say, it has held up well. I wouldn't mind owning more than one of these! It is my favorite go-to garden tool.

Love this scoop! The handle fits comfortably in my hand and the scoop holds a lot of dirt and since mine has a red handle, if I leave in the garden, the red handle helps me find it quickly.The serrated edges are helpful in cutting through roots or packed dirt.

I like this scoop so much I bought one as a gift. The wrong tool arrived instead. This is going back. I am left handed, this weeder is righty! Or I may have tried it.

I loved this so much I bought another after years and years and years of using the first one.