Compare Spear & Jackson spades, shovels and pruning shears

Spear & Jackson is a British brand from Sheffield with a history going back to 1760. The brand is best known for sturdy hand tools, such as spades, shovels and forks, and for pruning shears. On this page you can compare Spear & Jackson products with the current price at the shop.

What can you find from Spear & Jackson?

• Spades and shovels: garden spades, narrow and wide spades with a footplate, drainage spades, ballast shovels and edging spades.
• Forks and rakes, including stainless steel models from the Select range.
• Hoes, bulb planters and weeders for borders and vegetable gardens.
• Pruning shears with a bypass or anvil blade, such as the Razorsharp range, and saws.

Ranges

The Neverbend spades and forks are built for heavy-duty work. The Select range has a stainless steel blade, which rusts less quickly and to which soil sticks less. The Traditional line has classic wooden handles. For pruning there is the Razorsharp range with various pruning shears. When comparing, look at the blade width, the length of the handle and whether there is a footplate on the blade: that makes digging in hard soil easier.

Also compare other brands for hand tools, such as Fiskars, Gardena and Wolf-Garten.

How to compare Spear & Jackson

This brand page brings together all the Spear & Jackson products we compare. With the filters you can choose by type, power source and, for machines, by voltage and whether a battery is included. Sort by price to put the most affordable models at the top, or by popularity to see which models visitors view most often at a shop. The full specifications are shown on the product page.

Choosing a spade

There are many types of spades, and the choice depends on the soil and the job. An ordinary garden spade has a flat, straight blade for digging and cutting edges. A narrow spade, also known as a cable spade or drainage spade, makes deep, narrow trenches, for example for a drainage pipe or transplanting shrubs with a long taproot. An edging spade has a half-moon-shaped blade for cutting neat lawn edges. A shovel with a wide, curved blade is used to move soil, sand or gravel. Also pay attention to the handle: wood feels warm and flexes slightly, while fibreglass and steel are stronger and less sensitive to weather and wind. A T-grip or D-grip determines how you hold the spade; try out which grip feels most comfortable for you.

Comparing prices

For every Spear & Jackson product you can see the current price at the shop. Prices are updated daily, and where available you can also see the price history, so you can tell whether a deal is genuinely good value. If you want to wait until a model becomes cheaper, set a price alert on the product page. You always order directly from the shop. More brands and types can be found at garden tools.