Professional she's been a gardener all our life she is a blogger she's written six books and she said this is your best buddy in the garden it is item number FM 5 to 195 the radius garden roots layer multipurpose gardening shovel 38 16 year feature price for easy payments of nine dollars and fifty four sons and here she is Shawna Coronado our special guest who I actually had him guest called my teacher I'm your tenant you're my prize people okay here is what a lot of people are using and a lot of people as they get older they need help if you try to cut through roots with this you just don't really get anywhere look at the root Slayer this is an amazing design it is an amazing design it has an inverted V oh look at the difference yeah so that's for getting on the roots it is absolutely and of course the slot so rated edges yeah with this boot this little boot step you can kick saw with this so I love that and then yeah we have the the steel the mid steel it's all the way up to the very top here and what happens you can pry you can dig you can cut and it's super strong and look at this handle very unique rubberized why did you give it a round handle like this it is a patented O'Shay p-- it's round because it has four times the gripping capability four times you can see now if you have a gripping condition yeah you can leave your hands flat like this okay and push and pull any way that you are in the garden by the way this won an award maybe you can tell me about it we've got direct Gardening Association green thumb award in 2017 this is what you want in your garden I love it it is my best buddy in the garden let's get going let's show how it works all right it's easy easy easy to cut any kind of roots you can see how it digs right through you've got some rope and you're popping right through that if it were root you know what up to one and a half inch of route cuts like butter through an inch and a head like butters not many routes are that thick look at this Anna Beccaria the black bloc yeah though we'd luck but you know what even please try it more than anything it cuts through stone so if you wanted to dig out an area of your garden you can cut right through it now what my favorite thing to do is absolutely is to use it to dig up and cut and have perennials it is a dividing job you ever tried to transplant a hostas you do absolutely there I am in my garden actually digging and cutting and it is a divider a cutter you absolutely need this baby because of the serrated edges yeah look at it get right size of that root it's huge man I got lucky and found that one oh just a great shovel if you need to do some digging and dig a hole right absolutely but more importantly I struggle when I'm digging up there I am digging up an iris let me tell you those are tough to dig up that easy with this tool yeah just get right in digging for the planting season which is right now this is a tool you are gonna love and you're going to have it for many many years it is the biting season I'm 5 to 1 9 5 dividing season the radius garden roots layer multipurpose gardening shovel we don't have a whole lot of these to go around it is so well made and and Shawna you your whole life has been about gardening how did you find this I'll tell you what the radius tool company has been making tools for years and Bruce the owner from radius tool invented this he came up with the idea when he was planting a row of pine trees he had to dig them all up and he needed 4 tools for tools and he needed a saw a pry bar a shovel and this is all that in one so you said the steel comes all the way up to here right it done what is what's the handle this is a resin handle super-strong again these are really prior with this yes when you get in and you have a tough rock or something that went all the way up madness this go through it again forgetting roots let's show them the shape of this right here you know most shovels are just flat around it if we look closely at this compared to we're looking at my shovel here here's the here's a regular shovel and the invertebrate but look at the inverted V on now the trick with this in a traditional shovel that's pointy on the end also when you go into the soil you knock against the root and it slides right off this captures the root it grabs the F goes right through it and then with that sawing action you were talking about how you can saw roots with your foot right you can you use the boot step as a boot kick and use your weight to saw down exactly kick it several times and it'll go right down you can see me right there in the garden doing it and let me tell you the best part my favorite part is that inverted V there is no other tool like that right now then you fold up and you saw the root and use that inverted V and you cut right through it it is a planting season dividing season and it's a great shovel it's really it's the roots layer and you call this your best buddy in the garden it is right best buddy in the garden you know one that green thumb award well and it is guaranteed for life what other tool do you have for an entire lifetime this patented oring allows you to really grip with two hands so imagine a lifetime of easy gardening that's what this tool gives you I absolutely love it the O ring lets you have two-handed operations as and by the way you've got nice large foot pedals here where you can stand and use your weight for the kicking you got to do the boot kick and get it all turned over your soil it's great for your garden when you're planting vegetables in the spring but again my favorite is dividing those shrubs dividing the perennial it makes it easy it cuts it like butter and look at the teeth on this thing boy that is going to softer over 800 up an order by the way thirty six dollars and sixteen cents look at the easy payments nine fifty four think how much you struggle I remember trying to transplant a bush a single bush it took me I think about an hour and a half just to get through it the ring I was sweating I was working I was probably set a few words I shouldn't have it was really frustrating and this is gonna make it so much easier hmm it is a tool design for the job to get those roots absolutely and most importantly if you have any kind of condition that allows you to not grip as tight this lets you do it so even if you're a small lady like me you can get out in the garden and dig like a pro there it is the roots layer check out my facebook page dan wheeler QVC join me there you'll see this being feature along with Shana Thank You Shawn I get to work with you my best buddy yes absolutely all right and she's was one of my prized pupils from guest class all right there it is love the teeth love the design the V unbelievable I want to remind you about our one day only oh this is really cool it is a solar-powered lamp post we started with 2300 there are fewer than 150 and the bronze only and that's it at a one-day only price of 79 degrees to be you know you just love the outfit but thank you very cold cut you know yeah but I always have to wear black yeah it's gonna get your signature.

If you're going to be working in the yard chances are you're gonna be digging a hole and for that you need a good shovel so Roger in your opinion what makes for a good shovel well there's several choices Kevin let's start off with a classic wooden shovel this handle can split and check from the winter in fact if you look right there there's a crack in this one already look at the handle going into the blade it's held in by a single rivet and that's a weak point - okay the other weak point is if when you drive this into the ground you hit a rock and you go to wedge up you can snap this rate in half so in your opinion the wooden handle shovel is not for you no but there is an upgrade a fiberglass handle shovel take a look at this one here you can see it's at fiberglass down to a simple connection and it still has a rivet but this is a little stronger than the wooden-handled one all right but do you think this is the best shovel there you can get no this is what we use on our crew this is a heavy heavy fiberglass you feel well how heavy that is oh yeah big difference now look at the connection this is a ferrule let's press down over the shovel itself to hold it on tight that that'll never fail and if you put this in the ground you hit a root or a rock you can simply wedge it right out of the ground without breaking the handle all right heavy fiberglass and the best connection you can find that makes for a good shovel yeah let's talk about how we use these things to dig a hole one of the first things you want to look for is this these pads for your feet mm-hmm allows you to really put pressure on the shovel and drive it into the ground so what I do is I stand up nice and straight line up the shovel like that and simply push it into the ground and you've told us this before you know about how you should use your feet to push this as opposed to just your arms if you're going like this all day you're gonna be done burnt out in a very short time all right so now while we're digging we might hit some obstructions where the shovel is not the best tool to deal with them because there are other tools out there right so what we have here is a grub hoe this has a blade end on one side for cutting roots in a pick in for loosening soil a lot of times the ground so hard you can't even get the shovel in it so you simply take this drive it in loosen the ground up and then you're ready to dig okay and then you've got another one right next to it which is similar but a little different right now this has an accent on it you wouldn't want to take your good accent come out and cut roots but if you hit a root in the ground like this yeah you just take your grub axe right through it makes short work of it actually happens quite frequently when you're digging around bushes and said all right you've got a big iron bar here when does this guy come into play anytime you hit a rock you don't want to use your shovel take a chance on injuring it take a look at this on one end we have a blade on the other end we have a point and this will make short work of any rocks that you might hit in the ground all right well let's dig ourselves a hole here I'll get the shovel all right Kevin say we want to dig a hole this big now rather than start outside and work in you're gonna dig a little hole in the middle make it easier for you to dig now get rid of that and make a pile over here and start working from the center out dig that out straight back when you lift some roots showing up keV your form is great you got a straight back you're driving it in with your foot and then you're using the handle to pry the dirt out and lift I get a 10 from the landscaping judge I love it say a 10 Cavan if I only had the choice of two shovels my second one would be the square shovel nice steel edge not great for digging it's kind of hard to drive into the ground you know when it comes to cleaning up material it's perfect easy to move that dirt you get a good shovel full there all right not so bad huh no works really well you.