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Alya is the same size as the Auva border spade, but with a pointed blade. The head is work-hardened bronze, the shaft is steam-bent ash and the T-handle is beech. The pointed end to the blade is very sharp, allowing it to slice easily into the soil. The lip at the top of the blade saves your wellies, too.

Why Copper Garden Tools?

• Copper gardening tools enrich the soils with coppertrace elements and thereby provide plants with essential nutrients

• They are hardwearing and will last for years

• Stay free of rust – but age with a graceful bronze patina, perfect for the coastal gardener

• They have sharp edges

• They have an incomparably longer lifespan than devices from iron

• Viktor Schauberger came to the assessment that cultivating the soil with copper implements would be more beneficial to the Earth and lead to healthier plants. In his writings, he listed several reasons for this.

• Minute amounts of copper create the conditions for beneficial micro-organisms

• Penetrate the soil easily -low coefficient of friction- less tendency for clay to cling to the tool

• Copper is not magnetic - so does not disrupt the electrical fields in the soil

• Can be kept sharp with a whetstone, file or by peening (hammering the edge against a steel anvil)