The draper carbon steel garden border spade is a compact digging tool designed for working in confined spaces, borders and raised beds. This border spade features a fully hardened and tempered carbon steel blade with an epoxy coating for corrosion resistance, making it ideal for regular use in typical uk garden conditions. The plastic coated steel cored shaft provides durability whilst maintaining a comfortable weight balance during use. The plastic y dee handle offers a secure grip for lifting and turning soil, particularly useful when working around established plants where precision is required. Suitable for professional gardeners, groundskeepers and keen gardeners, this border spade excels at tasks such as planting shrubs in borders, working between perennials, and maintaining raised vegetable beds where a full sized spade would be impractical. Features and benefits bull blade fully hardened and tempered for durability and penetration bull plastic coated steel cored shaft combines strength with reduced weight bull epoxy coated carbon steel resists corrosion in wet conditions bull y dee handle provides comfortable grip and control contents bull 1 x carbon steel border spade