Small Hand Tools
Garden hand tools are another gardening item that you just can’t get away with not using. Here you will find shears/clippers, garden claws, hand trowels and hand tool kits. If you are looking for tools more like large shovels and pitchforks click here to see our large hand tools.
Shears
Fiskars Traditional Bypass Pruning Shears
These shears are simple and lightweight, and can cut branches up to 5/8″ in diameter. They come with nice rubber covered handles that provide great grip and padding for your hand. They come with a safety lock but no adjustable handles so you won’t be able to fit a size to your hand. These aren’t the highest quality shears out there but they are great for their relatively small price tag.
Weight: 0.65 pounds
Length: 10.8″
Traditional Bypass Hand Pruning Shears
Very sharp, high quality, all steel build with lightweight handles. These shears were built to last and feel good in your hand. They can cut branches up to 5/8″ in diameter. This pair of shears feature a great design with an adjustable grip so as not to strain your hands. They also come with a safety lock and super sharp blades right out of the package. They don’t have any plastic parts to break so they will last for a very long time.
Weight: o.7 pounds
Length: 8.6″
Gonicc Professional Premium Titanium Bypass Pruning Shears
These shears are amazing. They weigh a mere 0.45 pounds but feel very will made and sturdy. The Goniccs come with adjustable handles and a safety lock. The moving parts are solid and feel tight when used. These shears were built to last and they will. The handles are covered with high quality foam that doesn’t peel off easily and will provide great padding for your hand.
Weight: 0.45 pounds
Length: 8″
Garden Claws
Asano Japanese Ninja Claw
This garden claw is lightweight and has 5 thin metal prongs that are great for tearing up soil and ripping up weeds.
Weight: 0.49 pounds
Length: 10.1″
Aottop Stainless Steel Hand Claw Rake
This claw has 3 metal prongs and is very sturdy it would easily stand up to prying tough roots without bending. It has a nice rubber handle that is fitted to the hand and has good grip.
Weight: 0.62 pounds
Length: 11″
Truper Rapid Tiller
The trumper tiller has a fiberglass and rubber tiller that is strong won’t rot and provides excellent grip and control. The metal tines and pick are thick and sturdy and easily tear up roots and break up tough soil.
Weight: 1.9 pounds
Length: 14.4″
Hand Trowels
Fiskars Softouch Polished Aluminum Trowel
This trowel from Fiskars has a solid handle with a nice soft grip that fits your hand. The handle is firmly attached to the shovel head and the shovel head is slightly sharpened the end to make garving through tough dirt easier.
Weight: 0.55 Pounds
Length: 10″
Width: 4.5″
Transplanter Trowel with Ergonomic Handle, Homegrown Garden Tools
This trowel is perfect for digging transplantation holes or seed holes because of the convenient measurements made on the shovel itself. This will make sure that you get the exact recommended depth for all of your seeds and plants. This shovel also has a nice ergonomic rubber handle that is comfortable to hold. It comes with a small storage bag which isn’t the most useful thing in the world but it’s nice to have if you want to keep the soon to be dirty shovel away from other things.
Weight: 0.5 pounds
Length: 12.8″
Width: 4.3″
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DeWit Forged Hand Trowel
This trowel from Dewit is beautifully designed and crafted. It looks like an antique, but it is very sturdy and durable and will last the life of your garden. This trowel is also incredibly lightweight at only 0.4 pounds. The trowel comes in two different sizes (normal and small) and has 3 different handle configurations, classic elongated and a p-grip handle for better control.
Weight: .4 pounds
Lenght: 12″
Width: 3.5″
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Garden Tool Kits
Energup Garden Tool Set
This kit has every basic small garden tool you need. It comes with a shovel a garden claw and clippers. Each piece is made of aluminium which is not quite as hard as some of the other steel tools listed but aluminium won’t rust and is very light. All three tools come with nice gripped rubber handles that are comfortable in your hand. The clippers are pretty good quality for their price even without the shovel and garden claw. They don’t have any moving pieces or screws made of plastic but they are aluminum making them a bit less sharp.
Weight: about 0.4 pounds each
Fiskars 3 Piece Softouch Garden Tool Set
This set is a slightly different configuration with the clippers, possibly best purchased separately, left out. Instead it comes with a classic trowel a garden claw and a planting trowel with convenient on shovel measurements. Each piece is made of aluminium and therefore will not rust. All of the handles are made of hand fit soft rubber.
Weight: about 0.45 pounds each