What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we are mixing it up and we are talking about tools in the garden and specifically we're talking about shovels because I don't know about you but I did not know how many

types of shovels there actually are mostly because I just use a standard digging shovel.

But there are a ton of different types of shovels

and there are a ton of recommendations

as far as what's the best shovel out there.

So I figured I would do an episode on

demystifying this a little bit, sharing a little bit of what I know about it, and of

course this is a conversation, so hearing from you guys about what you think is the

best shovel for you as well.

So we're just going to talk about the different types of shovels and there are a bunch, I'll be

honest, there are eight-ish different types of shovels that we'll go over.

So first we're going to talk about the most obvious one,

digging shovels.

This kind of seems obvious.

Aren't all shovels used to dig?

Yes and no. When I say digging shovel what I actually mean is getting in

there and digging a hole or ditch in the ground, not just moving some soil out of the way.

And so for a digging shovel, you kind of need something that's built for that

task, which means a shovel with a handle that comes straight up from the center, not one that's

offset. This helps add extra leverage when you're trying to

pry material up. Most good digging shovels will have a pointed tip instead of

having a flat tip. Some of the fancier ones will also have sawtoed

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