Fiskars Fiberglass Handle Soil Scoop, 11.75"

This product is intended for use as a soil scoop. However, I have found a different application fro it in my household. I have an old cat with kidney issues and he uses his litter a lot. I have 2 litter boxes for a single cat that are cleaned, emptied, washed a refilled daily so kitty cat have a clean place to pee in. It was becoming labor intensive to left a big bag of littler twice a day in order to refill that cat litter box. So I decided to use this soil scoop and scoop out litter from the littler bag (or container) more efficiently. There is less dust and definitely less manual labor and less likelyhood of straining my back by lifting a heavy cat littler bag. My scoop actually has the entire handle in orange color and it gives it very attractive look. I am very please I made this purchase.

I like how light weight this scoop is and it certainly handles enough volume but beware that it does break depending on how you're using it. I have a patch in my garden that has tons of rocks in it. I was using the scoop to dig planting holes and hit a rock which chipped off a huge chunk of the lip so now it's not as useful. Luckily I had bought 2 of these and still have the other (I just make sure to use it for more subtle tasks like scooping compost etc.).

This is a nice sturdy scoop that has many potential uses inside and outside the house. Overall durability is better than most of the other products I have used for this purpose. The regular plastic ones usually break easily, and the metal ones most often corrode quickly when in contact with soil and rocks. The composite strikes a nice balance between the two, and this thing feels virtually indestructible. The size and shape of the scoop make it useful for measuring out fertilizers and other garden products.

Fiskar's has offered many products that I have purchased and this # 7068 Composite Soil Scoop is another I am happy to have purchased. It is a solid cylindrical shape to reach into the tilled soil to scoop out a perfect hole for a planting. I plan to use mine differently as a birdseed scoop. Each use is ok though, if you would like to dirty up this nice looking little scoop go ahead as it can be cleaned up with soap and water and it should look as good as new. Another quality Fiskar's product.

This scoop works really well for guiding soil past plant leaves into a pot without half of it falling off. Ideally, I think I might prefer a pair of differently sized scoops: one for small pots or tighter spaces and the other for moving larger quantities of soil. It takes a LOT of scoops with this tool to fill a gallon-sized pot. If you try to overfill it in order to do it more quickly, the soil tends to spill out. I also appreciate that it won't rust.I had also hoped to use this for birdseed, but again find that it's annoyingly small for filling a very large feeder and too big for filling a really small feeder. The rounded end of the scoop makes it hard to control precisely where it is emptying. Overall, 5 stars for re-potting, but only 3 for birdseed.

I used to use old yogurt and ricotta cheese containers to scoop planting soil and mulch out of the big container bags and buckets and add them to pots and plant holes. The dirt invariably fell all over making a mess. With my brand new Fiskars Soil Scoop, the soil stays in the scoop and I can add as much or as little as I need around the plants. I do not have a mess all around and the plants stay in the center of the container instead of being pushed aside by uneven soil distribution. Another plus is the ability to locate the scoop easily on the ground because of it's orange handle ring.

This tool makes my gardening work a little easier because I can move more dirt with the same effort as I've been using with my standard garden scoop. I also appreciate the fact that this tool will not rust as all my regular steel trowels are doing.

this is the best soil scoop i've had, its light weight and feels good in the hands a realy good buy at just five dollars.

This dandy scoop fills a need for me that has nothing to do with gardening, although I can see that it would be great for filling small pots. I was interested by another reviewer's comment that the scoop was smaller than expected and I've had a devil of a time finding something to scoop bird seed into a particular tube feeder without scattering it all over the place so I decided to give it a try. This is perfect. It is no bigger around than a standard sized soup can although the scoop part is somewhat taller. Because of the rounded shape it holds a good amount of seed and deposits it into the tube of the feeder quite effectively. I need several scoops to fill the feeder, but the seed goes reliably into the feeder and not all over the ground.One of my feeders is constructed so that I can use a canning funnel for filling, and another is bigger around so a regular scoop works fine, but this one has defied efficient filling. Although I tried the bird store scoop that has a lever to open so the feed will funnel down the hollow handle into a narrow tube feeder, I found the larger sunflower seeds often created a log jam over the small opening and stopped the flow and even at best, the process was tedious and slow so I've been searching for a scoop that was smaller around than normal but had a decent capacity. This one really fills the bill.All my plant containers are large enough that a bigger scoop is more useful, but this would be good for smaller pots for say, kitchen herbs, as it's only about 3.5" across. I can also see it would be handy to scoop and fill my small dog's dish with kibble from its storage bucket, so I may purchase a second one for that purpose. The handle on this scoop, at 5.5" is long enough for even a large gloved hand to hold and maneuver easily, and a slight depression in just the right spot to use as a thumb pad helps with leverage. The whole thing is the same sturdy plastic and won't mind being left out in the weather, plus will rinse clean easily.Bottom line: This scoop's narrow mouth fills some unexpected needs really well, but if you want to fill large gardening containers you may want to look for something bigger.