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Spear Head Spade Spear Head Spade is a revolutionary shovel designed to make your toughest digging up to 80% easier! The Spear Head Spade is lightweight yet heavy duty.

We sell long handled (59") and short handled (42") with a D-Grip models. Each one has our patent pending revolutionary new blade design which helps to make your toughest digging tasks up to 80% easier.

09/24/2026

The Spear Head Hoe sells on Amazon. Details and the Amazon link: https://spearheadspade.com/products/garden-hoe

Mulch goes on after the bed is weeded and watered, not before. Spread it from a standing position by drawing the head of the hoe through the pile, and keep it a hand's width off the stems so the crowns stay dry.

Two to three inches is enough. Deeper than that and the roots start growing up into the mulch instead of down.

09/23/2026

Two of the most common pieces of clay soil advice make it worse.

Adding sand is the first. Clay plus sand, in the amounts a home gardener can realistically add, gets you closer to concrete than to loam. You would need to change the majority of the volume to shift the texture at all.

Gypsum is the second. It genuinely works on sodic soils, which are rare outside certain arid regions, and does close to nothing on the ordinary heavy clay most gardens have.

What does work is organic matter, added every year, plus staying off the beds when they are wet. Texture is permanent. Structure is what you can change.

The five second test that tells you whether today is a digging day:
https://spearheadspade.com/blogs/garden-guides/how-to-improve-clay-soil

09/22/2026

The Spear Head Hoe sells on Amazon. Details and the Amazon link: https://spearheadspade.com/products/garden-hoe

Fertilizer works when it is in the root zone, not sitting on top. Scatter it, then chop it into the top few inches with the hoe. The window in the head lets soil flow through instead of piling up in front of it.

Then use the point to open a planting hole for a transplant without bending down.

09/21/2026

Bagging leaves is paying to throw away the best free soil amendment you will get all year.

Run the mower over them instead. Shredded fine enough, they filter down between the grass blades and feed the lawn over winter. What the lawn cannot take, rake into the beds as mulch or pile up for leaf mold.

The rule that keeps it from going wrong: shred them. A thick mat of whole leaves left on grass will smother it, which is where the whole leaves are bad for the lawn idea came from.

How much a lawn can actually absorb before it starts working against you:
https://spearheadspade.com/blogs/garden-guides/how-to-mulch-leaves

09/20/2026

The Spear Head Hoe sells on Amazon. Details and the Amazon link: https://spearheadspade.com/products/garden-hoe

A raised bed without boards is just soil pulled up from the paths. Stand in the path, reach across, and draw the loose soil toward you into a mound. Work both sides so the bed is level on top and the paths sit lower.

Loosen first if the ground is compacted. A hoe shapes soil, it does not break hardpan.

09/19/2026

The Spear Head Hoe sells on Amazon. Details and the Amazon link: https://spearheadspade.com/products/garden-hoe

Weeds and debris collect along a border edge because nothing walks there. Pull the hoe toward you along the edge with the head turned so the point runs in the seam between soil and edging. The leaves and roots come out together.

Do it after rain, when the soil gives, not in a dry spell when the roots snap and the crown stays behind.

09/17/2026

The garden kneeler: https://spearheadspade.com/products/garden-kneeler

Changing a tire on a wet driveway means kneeling on wet pavement. The same kneeler that lives in the garden shed fits behind the seat of a car. Not a garden tip, but the same pad works.

09/16/2026

The cheapest soil improvement available to a home gardener is a bag of seed and an empty bed.

A cover crop sown now grows through fall and holds the soil over winter instead of letting rain beat it into a crust, then gets turned in come spring as free organic matter.

Winter rye is the forgiving one. It takes the latest sowing date of anything you can buy and it survives whatever the winter does. The legumes, crimson clover and hairy vetch, host bacteria on their roots that pull nitrogen out of the air and leave it in the soil, but they want six to eight weeks before your first frost, and crimson clover is unreliable over winter much north of Pennsylvania. If you are reading this late, sow rye.

The one thing to get right in spring is the kill date. Turn a cover crop in two to three weeks before you plant, or it competes with what you actually wanted to grow.

Sow it in the next three weeks or wait until spring. Here is how to pick the crop:
https://spearheadspade.com/blogs/garden-guides/cover-crops-for-home-gardens

09/15/2026

Which spade fits you? Two questions, one answer: https://spearheadspade.com/pages/spade-finder

A crowded hosta bed leaves no room for a wide shovel. A pointed blade goes in between crowns without bruising the neighbors, and it cuts a division cleanly because the whole edge is sharp, not just the tip. Go straight down, then lever back.

09/14/2026

A perennial that flowers less every year and has gone hollow in the middle is not failing. It is overdue for dividing.

The clump spreads outward and the oldest growth in the center runs out of room first. Lifting it and splitting it is the whole cure, and it is the only garden job that pays you in free plants.

Grasses are the exception, and they are why this trips people up. Most perennials divide going into dormancy. Warm season grasses want the opposite, and wait for late spring.

Two things decide whether the divisions sail through or sulk for a season: dividing when the plant is heading into dormancy rather than into bloom, and keeping enough root with every piece of top growth. Spring bloomers get divided in fall, fall bloomers in spring.

Which plants split in fall, which wait for spring, and how to tell them apart:
https://spearheadspade.com/blogs/garden-guides/dividing-perennials-when-why-and-how-to-do-it-without-killing-them

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Jamesburg, NJ
06095

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