Product Review

Your best friend for planting bulbs at just the right depth, making elegant transplants from one container to another without spillage, and setting little seedlings into their new homes in your beds and borders, the transplanting trowel from Joseph Bentley is a gardener's delight. Constructed of stainless steel and hardwood, this durable and elegant tool will last you for countless seasons of hard -- but fun! -- work in the garden. The transplanting trowel measures 12 inches long, of which 4 inches are curved, pointed blade and the remainder are steel shaft and oak handle. The blade is perfectly shaped to make planting, transplanting, and digging in narrow spaces easy and efficient. And the center of the blade is etched with planting depths from 1/2-inch to 4 inches, so you can place bulbs at exactly the right spot. (You'll be surprised how often -- and for what a wide variety of tasks -- you use this "portable ruler" while you're in the garden, by the way!)