A multipurpose tool for indoor or outdoor gardening, planting, and soil working, and a method for making the same, are disclosed. The tool and method incorporate the capabilities of scooping,
cutting, scraping, loosening, working, furrowing, trenching, digging, removing, and replacing kitchen commodities, household
dirt or garden soil; of setting and removing plants; of weeding; and of
cutting and removing
plant roots and other obstacles found in or around soil. Preferred embodiments of the tool aspect of the invention provide a generally dished blade with a bifurcated pointed tip. At least one serrated blade edge for
cutting of roots and other obstacles or debris is provided. The method includes a procedure for loosening, furrowing, digging, and excavating soil with a single tool.