ProPlugger 5-in-1 Planting Tool - Sod Plugger, Bulb and Flower Planter

Works great for planting bulbs. I planted over a hundred bulbs this fall and it was so much faster (and easier since I have carpal tunnel syndrome) than digging holes by hand. I set the planter for the proper depth for the various bulbs and the holes were perfect. If the temperature is freezing, the soil will freeze in the tube, but normal planting temperatures are perfect. I enjoyed using this planter and look forward to using it next season.

Fast delivery and arrived in a well packaged undamaged box. The ProPlugger works great and I would recommend it to others. Family members that were watching me use the tool were amazed at how well it worked. It is a durable tool that I would expect to last for years and years. There is nothing really to break on it. If something did fail it would be from rust secondary to leaving wet soil on the tool after use or by leaving it outside laying on the ground. It appears to be covered with a durable powder coating. The coating covers all of the exterior surfaces and just a portion of the inside of the tube on the top and bottom. My soil has lots of clay in it. I worried about the plugs sticking inside the tube, but it does not. The lower portion of the tube, below the foot pegs, has a tapper that makes it smaller diameter hole. Since the upper portion is a larger diameter, the plugs slide easily out of the top. My soil is pretty moist right now and slightly muddy on top. It has been raining on and off for a couple weeks. I've only used the 6" depth setting. I prefer to get a deeper set of roots. I’ve done about 50 plugs so far. I weight 165 lbs. and a bounce on the foot pegs would bury the tool up to the foot pegs in my moist soil. Once the desired depth is obtained, a quarter turn of the tool allows the plug to easily come out of the ground. I'm using it to transplant Bermuda grass. Bermuda grass roots could be seen at the bottom of the 6" plug. I found the tool to be a good length for ease of use. I wouldn’t want to run the tool all day long, but it isn’t too labor intensive to transplant 20 or so plugs at a time. I give this a 5 star because it works great and as advertised. I would probably prefer a slightly larger diameter hole, but it works fine the way it is. I wouldn't say a full tube of 6 plugs is heavy, but increasing the hole diameter would increase the weight of the tool and the weight of the plugs. As mentioned, my soil is very sticky. The bottom side of the foot pegs got caked up with soil. If the bottom of the foot pegs were closed up with metal instead of being open, it would help prevent this packing of soil in the underside of the foot peg. Ideally the tool wouldn’t be buried to where the pegs are touching the soil. Slightly above the soil would be better. This would prevent the soil from packing into the pegs. It would also prevent the pegs from tearing up the soil in bare dirt when the tool is rotated. The caked up soil was hard to clean out of the pegs. I used a stick and a water hose. You can see from the last picture that there is still some soil in the tight spots between the pegs and the tube. In the bare dirt where I was transplanting to, a couple plugs out of 6 tended to break in half when removing them from the tube. Ideally the plugs wouldn’t break in half, but I can't blame the tool for that. It was easy enough to push the broken parts of the plug into the hole.

I liked the planter being very sturdy easy to use. I have a flower gardener under some trees and this planter cuts through the web of roots in the bed. It will NOT cut through any root over 3/8". I weigh 250# and the weight helps me drive the planter as deep as I need The rings that adjust for 2" and 4" depth are sturdy and do a good job . If you use the ring for 15 or more holes, you will need to tap the rings to get them off the tube. The reason the ground comes out of the main tube is that the end that goes into the ground is a little bit smaller in diameter than the main tube body. I would highly recommend this planter to every one who plants bulbs. One last comment is that the planter is well balanced and relatively light.

I'll start by saying that it is a good tool. It works and it does its job well when it does its job well. However, if you hit a dry spot, I cannot stress how important it is to stop and clear the tool. Do not try and force dry plugs up into it. Water the area and proceed or move to a less dry area. If you jam this tool, you will not get anything back out of it without the use of heavy machinery and hydraulics. Follow the instructions. Don't do what I did and ignore that small part. The dryness matters. I heard a little grinding on the last two plugs in the tube and decided to put a third in there. I should have stopped but it was late, and I wanted it done. Major mistake. As I said, you will not clear compressed soil out of this with the use of heavy machinery or hydraulics. The build quality is okay. The metal is thin and will deform if you tap out the plugs on even the most loose of gravel. I recommend tapping, if needed, on something plastic or even a bucket. I find that flipping the tool quickly and using my thumb to help eject that last plug in the tube really helps shoot the plugs out the inverted top. There is a subtle suction at play, and like water, the plugs are pulled along by the ones before them. Keep the movement smooth and consistent, and all the plugs will clear out of the tube without any fuss. Me and my boy managed to get about two-hundred and fifty plugs in the ground in little over an hour. Once you get the hang of the organization aspect of using this tool, the work just flies along. Our setup was me sourcing the plugs from our nursery lawn and my boy organizing them into our tractor bucket. That way, I drive to the location to be plugged and after making a few holes and placing the soil plugs to discard into a five-gallon bucket, he was able to just walk back and forth plugging the holes I had created. I honestly can't wait to use it tomorrow after the rain. It's a game changer.

Have already used this as soon as it arrived and it's great. Well made and does exactly what I need it to.

A parte la soddisfazione nell'usarlo, è proprio utile, soprattutto se si hanno delle zone nascoste dove poter prendere zolle buone da trapiantare. Molto utile per rattoppare le bruciature della pipì del cane

Heut is nun der "günstige" Plugger zum Unkrautstechen gekommen. Und ich muss sagen, ich bin mehr als zufrieden damit. Also wer so nen Ding braucht und so wie ich hier und da Löwenzahn im Rasen hat, kann bedenkenlos zugreifen.

Sirve tanto para replantar cesped/tomillo silvestre,etc., como para eliminar malas hierbas desde su raiz. El huerto tambien es ideal para colocar los nuevos plantones de lechuga,coles,tomates,etc.

Great piece of kit, works exactly as it says it will. Robust and well made and made planting a lot of bulbs easy. Definitely recommend.