While gardening shovels and garden spades both vary in shape and size, garden shovel blades have more of a bowl-shape for digging and moving materials, while spades are flatter and work well for ...

Smaller shovels for digging trenches feature blades around ... The flat, square shape of this spade from Fiskars is perfect for achieving a clean and straight edge when digging a border around ...

"The reason it's my number one [tool] is that you can do everything with a spade that you could do with a shovel and more." It's "great" for digging holes, planting plants, diving perennials and more, ...

Those penetrate compacted soil better than a long-handled spade, which has ... It’s mainly intended for digging and loosening soil. The advantage it has over a shovel is that it does a better ...

Gardening gloves, a good hose, shears and a wheelbarrow are just a few tools you should have on hand to easily plant, weed and move soil as needed. A good pair of gardening gloves makes digging in ...

That said, this shovel type still has a more bowl-shaped blade than true spades do, so it works well for scooping and carrying items but not so well for digging. Scoop shovel.