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Peta (UK) · England Model Easi-Grip Trowel

Peta Easi-Grip Garden Trowel

"The arthritis trowel. An angled handle keeps the wrist straight instead of cocked — the position that turns a morning of planting from painful to painless. Designed with occupational therapists; the UK reference for a weak or arthritic grip."

Editor's Choice 9.0 /10 Tested May 2026
Peta Easi-Grip garden trowel with angled ergonomic handle SPECIMEN · Easi-Grip Trowel

/ specificationsThe numbers.

Handle design Angled grip — keeps wrist in a neutral, straight position
Blade material Stainless steel
Grip Soft-feel, non-slip; bright colour for visibility in the bed
Designed with Occupational therapists, for arthritis and reduced grip
Add-on option Compatible Peta arm-support cuff transfers load to the forearm
Brand Peta (UK), family business making Easi-Grip tools since 1976
/ who it's for

Anyone with arthritis, a weak grip, tendonitis, or a wrist that aches after planting and weeding. The angled handle keeps the wrist straight — the single biggest cause of hand strain in trowel work is the cocked-wrist position a straight-handled trowel forces. Also ideal for one-handed use with the add-on arm-support cuff.

/ who it's not for

Gardeners with full hand strength and no joint pain may simply prefer a traditional forged trowel (lighter, slimmer). This tool's value is entirely in the ergonomics; if you don't need them, you won't notice them.

/ what we love

  • Angled handle holds the wrist in a neutral straight line, removing the cocked-wrist strain that a conventional trowel forces on every scoop. The whole point, and it works.
  • Developed in consultation with occupational therapists specifically for arthritic and weak hands — not an ergonomic afterthought but the design brief.
  • Add-on arm-support cuff (sold separately) clips the trowel to your forearm so the load bypasses the wrist altogether — turns a two-hand job into a one-hand one.
  • Stainless steel blade won't rust; bright handle is easy to spot when you put it down in the border.

/ what to know

  • Costs more than a basic stamped trowel — you're paying for the ergonomic design, not the steel.
  • The angled handle feels unusual for the first few minutes if you've used straight trowels all your life; the benefit appears once your wrist stops complaining.
  • Plastic-bodied handle; this is an ergonomic aid, not a forged heirloom tool. Judge it on comfort, not on heft.

The cocked wrist is the problem

Pick up a conventional trowel and scoop. Watch your wrist: it bends sideways, away from the forearm, to bring the blade flat to the soil. That sideways bend — the cocked wrist — is the position that, repeated a few hundred times across a morning’s planting, turns a healthy wrist sore and an arthritic one unusable.

The Peta Easi-Grip trowel fixes this with one design move: the handle sits at an angle to the blade, so you grip it like the handle of a small suitcase, with the wrist straight. The blade reaches the soil; your wrist never has to bend. The strain that a straight-handled trowel builds up over a morning simply doesn’t accumulate.

It sounds minor. It is the difference between gardening and not gardening for a great many people with arthritis.

Designed with therapists, not marketers

Peta is a UK family business that has made the Easi-Grip range since 1976, and the tools were developed in consultation with occupational therapists — the clinicians who rehabilitate exactly the hands this trowel is for. That heritage is why the range is the one Thrive (the horticultural-therapy charity) and many OTs reach for first.

The trowel also accepts Peta’s add-on arm-support cuff (sold separately): a clip that fastens the tool to your forearm, so the load is carried by the arm, not held by the wrist and fingers. For a very weak grip, or one-handed gardening, the cuff is what makes the tool usable at all.

Where it sits in our framework

Against the four-question durability framework:

  • Forged or stamped? Stainless blade on an ergonomic handle — not a forged heirloom, and not pretending to be.
  • Replaceable parts? The arm-support cuff and a left-handed version are available; the tool itself is a single unit.
  • Real warranty? Backed by Peta UK; the range has a long reliability record.
  • Manufacturer continuity? Peta (UK), making this exact range since 1976.

But the fifth question — does it move effort away from the part of you that struggles? — is the one this tool was built to answer, and it answers it better than any forged trowel can. For an arthritic hand, ergonomics beat metallurgy.

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