Radius Garden 16011 Root Slayer, Trowel, Red

This is my favorite, most useful tool for lawn and garden work. I like it so much that I've given them as gifts to my sons and brothers-in-law and I highly recommend it to others. The spade end of this trowel is heavy duty steel. The v-notch allows me to pry out rocks and cut through roots--same with the sawtooth edge. The handle is reinforced, and I have used it to pound-in stakes. Even the cutting hook comes in handy for slicing twine around bales. I have a zoysia lawn and, despite installing edging, the zoysia grass invades planting beds. The Root Slayer allows me to cut down through the spreading zoysia and then pry up the tentacles of grass--much better than any other weeder or garden trowel. Its flat trowel allows me to skim under weeds in the bed and scoop them out roots and all.

Great shovel and built to last forever!

This is a great garden tool. It really digs into dirt and difficult roots when removing plant or preparing ground for a plant.It is not as heavy as it appears but it is sturdy.

Works good!

Wonderful gardening tool! Only thing I would change is a thicker handle. Otherwise great and versatile, highly recommend!

This trowel is very well made and strong. Cuts through tough dirt easily with its serrated edges.Handle is sturdy and sufficient length. Good value for the money.

Great for metal detectoring!Quality item and a Great Company to deal with. Mine broke after about 8 months but it was immediately replaced under lifetime warranty by the manufacturer at no cost!

This trowel does a great job when working with soil that is loaded with roots. Previously I had to hack away or maybe use my rip-saw to cut through thick roots. This trowel has a partial saw edge on each side of the trowel. This edge blasts through skinny roots as though they are not there. Thicker roots can get sawn through with the edge - I simply shove the trowel in, making sure that the saw edge gets forced across the root. The saw edge works in one direction and has little trouble with roots up to one inch thick as long as you maintain contact between the saw edge and the root and are reasonably forceful. I think this could cut thicker roots, but at some point it makes sense to use something like a rip saw on really thick roots.