Spade for vegetable garden and garden

Choosing the spade for the vegetable garden and garden

The vanga It is certainly one of the most important tools in working the land. But how is a spade made, how many types of garden hoes Do they exist and on what basis is it necessary to choose the best tool?

A agricultural spade traditional is composed of a handle and a blade and this last part can have different characteristics depending on the work we have to do.

The correct choice of garden spade It depends a lot on the type of soil we have to work, more or less compact and hard or clayey, and on the result we want to obtain.

Handle Features

The handle of the garden spade It must first of all have good quality to ensure a certain durability over time. length of the handle, moreover, is fundamental to determine the effort that will be made during the work. The handle must in fact be at the right height thus avoiding abnormal bending of the torso and therefore avoiding annoying back pain.
For what concern material of the handle, it must certainly be sturdy since this part of the spade is used as a lever to lift the clods.

Therefore, hoes with the wooden handlea material capable of not only resisting for a long time but also of absorbing vibrations and temperature variations.

Blade Features

The lama It is used to penetrate the ground and is usually made of very sturdy steel and with a slightly curved shape and of various types. The length, however, is generally between 25 and 30 cm. The main types of blade are:

• a square shape or rectangular;
• with tip or shield-shaped;
• spade fork or garden pitchfork.

Vanga is a force

The they were forca It has a blade with sturdy and rather straight teeth, with 3 or 4 tips that allow it to penetrate the soil more easily and to easily break up the clod even in the case of particularly hard and compact soil.

Square garden and vegetable garden spade

The square spadeon the other hand, does not have a tip and is especially suitable for previously worked land or for sandy and therefore not very compact soil.

Spade shovel Agricultural Command

In particular, this type of spade is recommended for working in the vegetable garden and garden or for a precise cutting of the clodsfor example in lawn care.

Pointed garden and vegetable garden spade

Finally, the spade with the pointed or shield-shaped end can penetrate the soil very easily and then widen to allow a rather large area of ​​land to be worked.

For this reason, the vanga a punt It represents an excellent compromise between the other two types, fork and shield, and is certainly the most widespread both for gardening activities and for working very compact soils.

Self-tipping spade

Anyone who works the land, whether as a profession or as a hobby, knows very well how tiring it is. side and often the consequences on the joints, especially on the back, are felt with pain and various types of disorders.

The degree of fatigue experienced during digging undoubtedly depends on the type of soil-breaking tools used: the manual spade of the traditional type, for example, certainly requires a greater physical effort: after having sunk the blade into the ground, in fact, the clod must be broken, a procedure which involves considerable effort.

Vanga Agraria Command fork

To make the operation less tiring and much easier, you can choose, instead of the traditional one, a spade with automatic mechanism which allows the handle of the tool to tilt, reaching a leverage point that allows the clod to be split without particular effort.

Afterwards the handle of the spade automatically returns to its initial position and the tool is ready to continue its work. The result will be less fatigue, especially for the back muscles, and consequently less risk of strains, with optimal results in working the soil.

Manual spade for vegetable garden and garden Agraria Comand

Agraria Comand Srla leading company in the marketing of professional garden tools, offers the Perrette self-tipping spadewhich allows you to till the garden and vegetable patch without having to bend over, thus avoiding joint pain and back pain.

This spade is in fact equipped with a automatic rotation mechanism on the side that rotates the shovel and effortlessly digs the soil. At the same time, the spade breaks up clods, incorporates manure into the soil and extracts products, such as potatoes, from the earth.

Garden and vegetable garden spade Agraria Comand environment

Ergonomic and free of springs and gears, Perrette features a pedal where to insert the foot to allow automatic movement while the extendable handle allows you to adjust its length to the right height, to reduce any effort to a minimum.

Perrette is also made of steel, a material that ensures exceptional resistance of the device, with a surface painted with epoxy paint, baked in the oven, after the preparation treatment. The rotating handlesthen, add comfort and convenience when using the spade.

Operation of the spade with automatic tipping Agraria Comand

The Agraria Comand manual spade is made up of a profit which forms a lever that can be operated by the height-adjustable rotating handles; support pedal It is fixed by a metal flange on a 2/3 axis of the lever.

Thanks to this structure, the spade makes maximum use of the user’s weight and penetrates deep into the ground. There is also a rotating sleeve at the end of the lever on which you can fix the spade or the pitchfork.

The rotary movement is obtained through a sliding system on one of the 2 ramps of the pedal and is possible thanks to the traction of the lever by the user, without the slightest effort.

How to use the Agraria Comand manual spade

To use the spade correctly, you must:

– Position the tool with your arms stretched out so as to keep the shovel at the gallows;

– Press the support pedal until the spade is completely inserted into the ground;

Spade garden vegetable garden Agraria Command use

– Pull the lever gently while holding the heel on the pedalthen lift the tip of your foot and, once the pedal is lifted, the clod will be attached to the spade;

– Finally press with the tip of the foot and lower the arms, so as to turn the earth without effort. To increase the speed of the work, the foot must not leave the support pedal.

Agraria Comand Manual Spade Options

In addition to minimizing fatigue when working the soil, the Perrette spade offered by Agraria Comand also allows you to adapt the device to the soil to be worked.

The spade, in fact, is equipped with a 4-pronged fork and in addition a rectangular spade interchangeable by simply unscrewing a bolt.

In the video presented below, a test is performed with the buy manuals Agraria Comand on rather heavy and frozen ground: working the soil still appears to be decidedly easy and this demonstrates that on lighter soil digging is very easy and fluid.

The automatic tipping manual spade can be purchased at discounted price of 195.20 euros.

The Importance of Garden Tools in Permaculture

The permaculture It is a design philosophy valid for both vegetable gardens and gardens that aims to create sustainable and self-sufficient systems, based exclusively on ecological and biological principles.

According to this philosophy, the organization of soil, water, plants and animals is all connected and based on an understanding of natural processes and biodiversity.

Permaculture vegetable garden and garden with Agraria Comand tools

The permaculture focuses on creating systems that are able to nurture and sustain life, without compromising the system’s ability to continue to do so over time.

The tools for working in the vegetable garden and garden proposed by Agrarian Command they are excellent for this type of philosophy as they are tools with low environmental impact (they are manual, ergonomic and not heat-engined), and with spare parts available to avoid “disposable”.

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For more than 10 years, Agraria Comand has been dedicated to the production and sale of products in the pet food sectorof aquariums and especially in gardeningwith a wide choice of back-saving devices and a range that exceeds 5000 products available.

Among the various proposals, Agraria Comand offers articles for the maintenance and fertilization of the garden but also for the protection from insects and parasites, together with products for artificial ponds and custom irrigation systems.