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

Great tool for putting in sod plugs. Very well made. Installed 80 sod plugs. Made the job a lot easier. Highly recommended.

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 was hesitant to write this review since I have not had a chance to actually use the ProPlugger. However, upon unpacking it, I noticed how well constructed it is. The actual tube that collects the plugs is once solid piece of steel (no screw needed to attach any parts). It’s appears to be extremely well made and should last a lifetime. The coating on the steel is also very nice. About the only thing I can imagine that might damage it is rust, but only if the coating were to wear off with heavy use and it was left in a damp/wet condition. I think that could easily be prevented by rinsing it off when dirty and wiping with a dry cloth…then just running a rod with a cloth attached to it down the tube a few times. Can’t wait to use it, just need some heavy rain so that my red clay soil softens up. As some may know, that red clay is almost like concrete when dry, LOL! Will give an update after using it. UPDATE (May 3,2025): Finally got to use my Pro Plugger…I LOVE this thing. Had a good rain last night which softened up the red clay soil in my yard. It worked just as advertised. My only suggestion is if your soil is a “hard” type like red clay, you may have to simply press down on the handles and twist the Pro Plugger a few times to start the cutting/pentration, then stand on it and push with your body weight downwards. Even though it rained the night before, my soil was not ideally as soft as I needed it to be. But it still worked great. As I’m writing this review, it’s pouring outside, so soil should be perfect for removing plugs tomorrow. Will continue and finish up what I’ve been wanting to do for yrs. Do yourself a favor and buy the original Pro Plugger. I would strongly suggest NOT to purchase a knock off product that you have to assemble with a screw. I guarantee you it will not last and end up falling apart. This thing is heavy duty (read my previous review) as it should be. And best of all it’s made in the USA, Thank you Pro Plugger. You saved me a lot of money, did not have to spend a lot of money purchasing Empire Zoysia. I can simply use what I already have in my yard:)

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.