The typical shovel test is about the diameter of a dinner plate and generally no more than knee-deep. All soil from the test is sifted through quarter inch wire mesh to recover artifacts. The kinds of ...

No-dig gardening helps to improve the health of your soil and you never have to pick up a shovel. No-dig gardening is based on pre-industrial farming techniques and the work of Masanobu Fukuoka.

This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. When you thrust a shovel into the soil or tear off a piece of coral, you are, godlike, cutting through an entire world.

allowing you to easily shovel snow, soil, sand, or soil. It comes with three handles and can be assembled into two different lengths, according to your needs. The assembled short size is 31.5x10.5 ...