GARDENA Bulb Planter: Ideal garden accessory for planting flower bulbs, with automatic release and depth scale, planting assistant of high-quality steel with a Duroplast coating (3412-20)

Product Information

The WOLF-Garten FHN Bulb Planter Hand Tool performed exactly as I expected it to. It’s not a planter that I would recommend to anyone that has overly hard or stony soil, but, for everyone else, this clever little tool will make the bulb planting process so much faster.

This bulb planter is roughly 7 cm in diameter – it has a conical shape, so is slightly narrower at the base and then wider at the top. There are depth markings etched onto the side, ranging from 0 – 10 cm , and these are clearly visible.

Customer Reviews

I used this bulb planter to plant a variety of spring bulbs, including tulips, daffodils, anemones, and snowdrops. Some went into raised beds, others went into hard and uncultivated soil, and several went into lawn. DIBBER: This metal dibber has a sharp, pointy spike for puncturing the ground to make deep precise holes. It is made to last from strong metal, lacquered with Duroplast to prevent rusting. I had several bulbs to plant, from tiny onion sets to plump garlic cloves to chunky tulip bulbs, giving me plenty of opportunities to test this award-winning tool out.

It’s worth noting that this was the most worm-friendly bulb planting tool that I tested, possibly because it created the smallest hole compared to the rest. There are a couple of ways to get around this, with the first being to tone the power down. You could also try putting your drill into reverse . I did this by accident at first but found that it created a beautifully neat hole, so this is how I ended up using the tool when planting 250 crocus bulbs in the hard, stony soil underneath my lawn.

One of the best features of this tool are the depth rings. You can slide these rings on to adjust your planting depth – choose from either 2, 4, or 6 inches. There’s only one way to put each of the rings on, and only one place each of them can go, so whoever designed this tool really couldn’t have made things simpler. If you’re looking for a way to plant bulbs that doesn’t involve getting down on your hands and knees, then a long-handled planting tool, such as the Traditional Long Handled Bulb Planter from Kent & Stowe, is what you need. This garden tool supposedly makes life easier when planting bulbs and small plants, so I was excited to put it to the test with all of the spring bulbs that were waiting to be planted around my farm. You then have two options. Place your bulb into the hole and then turn the bulb planter upside down to release the soil over the top of the bulb. Alternatively, move on to dig your second hole. As you do so, the new soil that enters into the cone will push the old soil out of the top. Leave it on the ground and carry on digging all of your holes. Once dug, you can move along them with your bag of bulbs, dropping one into each hole, before filling them in with the soil plug that’s sitting beside each hole. The ProPlugger couldn’t get much easier to use. All you need to do is place the tool over the area of soil you want to dig (after sliding on the appropriate depth ring), step down onto it, give it a twist, and pull it up.

As mentioned, the Draper 3082 Bulb Planter has a very similar design to its competitors. However, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing – it’s clearly a reliable design, and there were no immediate flaws that I could see. Most of the bulb planters that I reviewed were pretty versatile, but this one takes things to a whole new level. When it comes to emptying the soil out of the tool, you have two options. Either turn the tool upside down and let the soil fall neatly out, or dig another hole. The soil that the tool collects from this hole will push the old soil out of the bulb planter and leave it neatly on the ground, ready for you to re-fill your first hole with. I couldn’t see any bulbs in the holes (I’m hoping they were further down) but I re-covered the holes anyway and have my fingers crossed for spring! Since these were pretty extenuating circumstances, I haven’t detracted any points from my scoring of the product, but it’s worth a mention for those of you who live in storm-prone areas.

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It’s around 85 cm tall , meaning that you won’t need to bend to use it and it’s extremely sturdy thanks to the welded carbon steel construction. Wolf-Garten state than when they designed this product it was for the smaller gardens and flower beds. However, we feel that this small but effective bulb planter would be a nice addition to any landscaping professional working of any sized garden. The Wolf-Garten bulb planter has a maximum hole diameter of 6 cm which is not the biggest no but it’s certainly ample. The serrated edges of the head blades sink into the soil with ease. With a simple twist the soil pulls right out and with an even easier press of the handle the soil flies right out.