From real gardens

Spear Head Spades in real gardens

Every photo here comes from a real garden and a real gardener. See the spade, the long handle, the Mini, and the hoe at work in beds, borders, and hard clay, then shop the tool that fits your patch of ground.

Over 600,000 sold, and Better Homes and Gardens named it Best Shovel and Spade in 2025.

Woman digging a garden bed next to black-eyed Susan flowers with a yellow D-handle Spear Head Spade — Planting beside the black-eyed Susans with the 40 inch D-handle.
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Daniel, the inventor of the blade, digging in his lawn beside a lilac with a yellow D-handle Spear Head Spade — Daniel, who invented the blade, still digs with the 40 inch D-handle he designed.
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Spear Head Hoe with a yellow handle resting on a rock beside ferns in a garden border — The Spear Head Hoe, resting after a pass through a rocky, fern-lined border.
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Three women standing in a garden holding Spear Head Spades around a large rock — Three sisters, three Spear Head Spades, and one very stubborn rock.
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Two smiling women at an outdoor flower show holding D-handle Spear Head Spades — Fans who found us at a flower show, D-handles in hand.
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Woman pressing a yellow D-handle Spear Head Spade into the soil beside an ornamental grass — Dividing an ornamental grass with one step on the 40 inch D-handle.
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Two Suffield Garden Club members posing like the American Gothic painting with garden tools in front of a gothic style house — The Suffield Garden Club goes full American Gothic.
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Young girl digging under a tree with the 30 inch Mini Spear Head Spade — Ellie and her Mini, breaking ground under the big tree.
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A garden cart of bulbs and a lavender Spear Head Spade beside a freshly dug trench under autumn trees — Bulb season: a fresh fall trench and the lavender D-handle.
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Hartford firefighter with a Spear Head Spade planting shrubs around the station flagpole — Engine Co. 5 in Hartford, planting around the flagpole.
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Hugh standing at the Spear Head Spade booth with display racks of spades at the Capital Region Garden Expo — Hugh at the Capital Region Garden Expo, racks fully stocked.
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Smokey Bear statue holding a yellow Spear Head Spade in front of red rock hills — A roadside friend holding the D-handle for the photo.
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Rows of Spear Head Spades in many colors lined up against a wall for a garden club planting day — The Peachtree Garden Club planting day arsenal in Atlanta.
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