ProPlugger 5-in-1 Lawn and Garden Tool, Bulb Planter, Weeder or Weeding Tool, Sod Plugger, Annual Planter, Soil Test Probe

Make sure your lawn is watered before use. 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.

Works great for transplanting Bermuda grass. 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.

Almost perfect for the job. The tool is very well designed to dig multiple holes for planting several bulbs at a time.I only wish it were a little taller, the awkward height definitely strained my back (it shows up when you are digging dozens of holes).Also it works only when the soil is wet (just an fyi, not a critique). While pulling out the digger, make sure to shimmy it a little around the hole before pulling vertically. This helps break the bond at the very bottom of the hole. If not, again, you will strain your back.

Works reliably as described. I used this to transfer Palisades Zoysia in to weak or bare centipede turf areas in early July. Fertilized the plugs with Milorganite. All filled in 75 days later. Easy to use by an old guy in clay soil. I used the shallow setting.

Great grass plugger. Even though it is not recommended for use with St Augustine grass, that is what I got it for. You have to be sure to get a good stem/root structure in the plug or otherwise you just cut off the leaves and have only roots in your plug . St Augustine has a shallow root structure so I used the 2″ setting which worked well. I had a system where I would fill the “plugger’s” tube with 5 plugs from the barren area. Then I would go to the health grass area and take a plug, then immediately fill that hole with one of the “barren” plugs in the tube. and so on… Once you get the hang of it, its quick and easy and you don’t have random holes in the yard. I will probably use it for other planting purposes, but so far I’m pleased with just the grass plugging!! Its well made and designed. Should last a lifetime with proper care.