A little jack-of-all-trades among gardening tools - with a planting tool like this one, made of solid ash wood and always to hand thanks to its optimal size, you are well equipped all year round. Whether at the start of the season, when it's time for the young vegetable plants to move outside; in early summer, when the flowers grown indoors move into the beds; or even more so in the fall, when the flower bulb planting season starts again. With the planting wood, you can quickly pick up speed when "digging" large and small planting holes. The brass tip makes it easier to prick into the ground and also protects the wood from stress caused by damp soil. A centimeter scale shows you the planting depth, and the handle knob allows you to grab it with force. We source this classic garden tool from a forge in Franconia.

The Krumpholz family knows a thing or two about forging. Based in the Franconian Forest, their ancestors acquired their first own hammer mill - the Guttenberger Hammer - in 1799 and were already producing tools and other everyday objects from forged iron back then. Today, the company's fortunes are in the hands of the eighth generation. The garden tools that leave the production site, which is still in its old location but has long since been modernized and expanded, are tools of the highest quality: shaped to their intended use under the weight of the forging hammer, compacted and reinforced where necessary, fitted with sharpened edges or blades and equipped with high-quality ash wood handles. Free-form forging, as practiced at Krumpholz, requires special skill and a sense of proportion. The steel used, a Swedish steel with a chrome-molybdenum content, is tough, strong and easy to clean.