Features:

  • WATCH OUR VIDEO - Click the video to see the ProPlugger in action.
  • PLANT LIKE A PRO – Step, twist, pull and you’re ready to plant. Dig 2 and 1/8 inch diameter planting holes quickly, one after another, from a comfortable standing position. Soil gets stored in the tool as you work and empties by turning the tool upside down. Depth Rings allow you to consistently dig perfect planting holes at 2 inch, 4 inch and even 6 inch deep. Avoid digging in dry or overly saturated soil.
  • MULTI-USE GARDEN TOOL – Plant your garden favorites. Spring and fall bulbs, annuals, ground covers, vegetables and more. Makes a great lawn and sod plugger (Not Recommended for St. Augustine Grass), weeding tool, soil sample tool and drip-edge fertilizing tool.
  • TAKE THE PAIN OUT OF PLANTING – The ProPlugger 5-IN-1 Planting Tool allows you to work from a standing position, saving your back and knees. Comfortable, sturdy hand grips are helpful for seniors or those with mild arthritis.
  • MADE IN THE USA of durable all welded carbon steel.
Very Well Made and Easy to Use

I’ve tried seeding and patch mix to fix an area of my front yard that has never had much grass. After failing at growing grass I decided to try plugs. The Pro Plugger is extremely well made, and is an easy to use tool for pulling grass plugs and filling in the holes. This is zoysia grass so I am not anticipating a quick fix, but so far after transplanting 50 or so plugs I am encouraged that this is the ultimate solution.

Easy to use and seems durable

I'd looked at several plugging tools after we put down buffalo grass sod and they all seemed to be very flimsy and had many reviews that they didn't last long. This tool seems like it is constructed well enough and has a very simple concept that shouldn't break. The tube tapers from skinniest at the end to the wides at the top. So you can stack multiple plugs at once. So that is super convenient. You pull several plugs, tip the tool upside down and they come out. No ejecting them...etc. I've used it on about 50 plugs so far. The plugs are a bit large, but once you fill them back in with dirt, the buffalo grass should fill them right back in if you do it during growing season.

If you plant bulbs, annuals, or pull weeds, this is the tool to have.

This thing is awesome!!!!! I found an ad for this item on the web and began to do a little research into them and decided to purchase one of them. Within 45 minutes or the package arriving at the house it was unpacked, and I had punched 38 holes in the earth to plant my bulbs for the season. The tool comes with foam handles that make gripping it easy and two (2) depth rings. One of the rings is a4" rings and the other is a 2" ring. Read the instructions that come with your bulbs and attach the correct ring and off you go. Hint: Make sure that the soil is moist to make using the tool easier. I also carried along with me a 5 gallon pail to empty the plugs into. I mixed the plugs with some slow release fertilizer to give my newly planted bulbs a good start. I plan on using the tool later in the year for removing weeds that may crop up and take then out, root and all. I should have purchase this tool a long time ago and to plant new bulbs. I saves your back and makes the task very, very easy. Highly recommended

Just Buy It

If I could give it more stars I would. I have had multiple pluggers and none of them would work for me. I was purchasing sod to make my own plugs but I was wanting to plug from existing zoysia. I decided to give the ProPlugger a chance and was thrilled that I did. The ProPlugger works like a charm. I'm now able to cut plugs from my existing lawn and plug elsewhere with ease. When I was purchasing sod I had resorted to a spade bit and hand drill. While I was using the ProPlugger a neighbor stopped by and asked me about it. I told her to give it a try. After doing 3 plugs she purchased one as well. I love that you can adjust the depth of the plug. I have no doubt that it would be super easy to use to plant bulbs. In conclusion, don't waste money on other pluggers. If you are wanting a heavy duty and easy to use tool for plugs or bulbs, then this is it.

Great plugger!

Great tool! Made great plugs holes and plugs from sod. Since the plugger was the same size, plugs were easy to put in. The plugs I made were a little smaller then the holes, but easy fix with peat moss and soil. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND making all your holes first! That way once you make all your plugs, you can plant them. One sod makes over 164 plugs. There will be extra pieces of sod that can be cut into sizable plugs with clippers. Also recommend watering the land that you want to make holes in prior to making holes. Wet holes are easier to make then dry holes. But not saturated. Depending on how many plug holes you make, you’ll have a lot of dirt. Find a situation or place to dispose of it.

Positive Reviews Are Correct

All the positive reviews here are correct, so I won't elaborate much on this excellent and easy-to-use product. As others have said, make sure you follow the watering instructions so that your soil is neither too dry (too hard to pull plugs out) nor too muddy (mud is easy to remove, but muddy plugs are too sticky and soft to be useful). Quick searches will lead you to online videos that show what ideal plugs look like. These videos will clarify whether you're preparing (watering) your soil correctly for ProPlugging. Also, keep a mallet handy for the moments when you need to change the rings that determine the plug depth. Even after collecting only a few plugs, the ring is going to be stuck on the ProPlugger pretty tightly. Here's something to consider when you're trying to remediate weedy areas of a lawn: When transplanting grass plugs, it's easy to know what you're picking up in your "source" area. You find a grassy area of your lawn in good condition, and you use the ProPlugger to accumulate plugs that have healthy grass on top of them. These healthy-grass plugs are ready to thrive and spread their new location (after a good watering). That part's easy, as long as the soil has been prepared with watering around 48 hours in advance. But it's not so easy to know what you're picking up in your "destination" (i.e., weedy, distressed) area. If your destination area is is just dead grass, no problem. You pull out the plugs with dead grass, and those "holes" make room for the plugs with healthy grass. But if your destination area is 40% - 80% weeds, you may think you're pulling up weedy plugs and be mistaken. Sometimes the weeds just bent to the side while I lined up the ProPlugger to "unplug" the weeds. When this happened, the weeds stayed in the ground and the plugs I removed just had young or ailing grass in them. A solution I'm trying now is to prepare the destination area better by making the center of each targeted weed more conspicuous. The idea is to make it more obvious to myself where the weed centers are before I attack the weeds with the ProPlugger. For example, a mature dandelion plant may have a diameter of 12 inches, and may have a lot of grass interspersed among its leaves. To attack this dandelion effectively with a Proplugger, you have to pull up the dandelion leaves a bit and make sure you know where the center of the dandelion plant is. If you miss the center or root area of a weed, you're not remediating anything (in fact, you might be aerating next to the weed's roots, and helping the weed to thrive). The ProPlugger is very sturdy, so I expect to use it for many years. I've noticed that rubber handles are the first thing to wear out on high-quality metal products like this, so I tied long rags around the rubber handles that can be easily replaced each time the rags wear out. This way the rubber is unlikely to ever wear out, and I should have comfortable handles for the life of the ProPlugger.

Yes. A good buy.

This thing is the bomb. When you start to get old and your body hurts, and you're wondering how the F am I going to plant things in my yard… This thing has saved my ass so many times. Not only can you plant bulbs and seeds…easily!!! But you can replant dead portions of your yard with healthy portions of your yard . What more can you ask for?

Sturdy and Versatile, made in USA

I purchased this product for 39.99 and it shipped free with prime. I hesitated to buy this because I felt the price was too high for a tool like this. Now I feel it’s a great value!! It is SO MUCH easier to make holes for plants; I don’t have to get on my hands and knees or even bend over. I primarily use this tool to quickly make holes in my clay Georgia lawn for zoysia plugs. The clay sometimes gets clogged but it’s easy enough to unclog. I’ve also started to use it for putting in smaller plants in my plant beds. It can make a hole 2”, 4” or 6” deep which makes it more versatile. This thing is very well made! It is made in the USA by the family that invented it. They made it right with a long lasting sturdy metal construction. Overall I’m very happy with this purchase and the hard labor it has spared my back! If you are on the fence like I was I say buy it. You’ll be glad you did.

Worth Every Penny

This thing is awesome and excellent quality! I transplanted a bunch of Zoysia from one house to another. It made both ends of the job so much easier and fast. The holes it made were actually hard to find after I made them. I thought this would make ugly holes in the grass, but it didn't, a nice surprise. I also used this to plant about 50 tulip bulbs about 5 inches deep, wow did that go fast - 15-20 minutes total, even though there was gravel under the surface! The bulbs would have easily taken me 45 mins to an hour without this tool; my only regret is that they weren't selling them a while back when I needed to plant a few hundred bulbs. That's ok; I need to plant more. This is definitely worth the money.

Reluctant to purchase but it was worth every penny! Made planting bulbs a breeze!

I was hesitant to purchase this because of the price. I'm not a huge gardener and don't plant tons of bulbs and aside from that, this doesn't really have any other uses for us. However, this year I did order several hundred bulbs and because of the good reviews I decided to go ahead and try this out as I didn't want to use a trowel for each of those bulbs. I was skeptical that the plugs would come out so easy but they did. This worked like an absolute charm and was worth every penny to me. I used it in soil that was both dry and moist and it worked equally well in both situations. The plugs of course tended to stay together better in the moister soil and were more likely to crumble with the dry soil. And except for a few times I had no difficulty getting the plug out. Even when one did get stuck all it took was tapping it on the cement and then giving it a few good shakes. I will say that there were a few spots in our yard were the soil was tougher and my wife could not get this to go down into the soil and it gave me a run for the money. So just keep in mind that it will give you a workout if your ground is hard. All in all it made planting the bulbs we ordered such a breeze.

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