Stainless Steel Bulb Planter
One Push. One Hole. The Right Depth Every Time.
For anyone who plants their own bulbs in October and is tired of hacking a hundred ragged holes with a trowel, guessing the depth on every one of them.
A stainless steel barrel with a toothed rim that cuts a clean plug of soil rather than tearing a pit. Press the lever and the plug drops straight back on top of the bulb, so the hole fills itself. The hardwood T grip takes both hands, so the force goes down into the ground instead of into your wrist.
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Cuts a clean plug so every bulb in the row sits at the same depth
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Toothed stainless rim goes through turf and root mat, not just soft bed soil
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Press the lever and the plug drops back on top of the bulb, so the hole fills itself
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Hardwood T grip for two hands, so the force goes down instead of into your wrist
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The barrel is the depth gauge: push it to the shoulder and every hole is the same. That suits the great majority of daffodil, tulip and crocus planting. For very large bulbs going unusually deep you would still want a spade.
It is happiest in soil that has been worked or in turf. In ground that is baked hard and bone dry it will fight you, the same as any planter. Water the area the evening before and it goes in easily.
Roughly 9 inches long and about 11 ounces, so it is a hand tool you kneel or crouch with rather than a long-handled planter you stand over. It goes in the trug with your gloves instead of living in the shed.
Sixty days. Plant a real run of bulbs with it. If you would rather go back to the trowel, send it back and we will refund you.
What It Actually Changes
It takes the guess out of depth
A bulb wants to sit at about three times its own height down. With a trowel every hole is an estimate, and by the fortieth one you have stopped estimating. The barrel goes to the same depth every time, so the row comes up together instead of in patches.
It cuts turf, not just beds
Naturalizing bulbs into a lawn is what makes a garden look established, and it is exactly what a trowel tears to pieces. The toothed stainless rim cuts through grass and root mat and lifts the plug out whole, so the turf goes straight back down over the bulb.
It backfills itself
The plug of soil stays in the barrel until you press the lever. Bulb in, plug out, done, one hole at a time and nothing to shovel back afterwards. That is the part that turns a hundred bulbs from an afternoon into an hour.
Half The Bulbs You Planted Last Year Were Planted Wrong
Not because you did not care. Because a trowel cannot tell you how deep you are.
A bulb wants to sit at roughly three times its own height under the surface. Too shallow and it comes up early, gets caught by frost, or heaves itself out over winter. Too deep and it spends everything it has getting to the light and never flowers at all.
With a trowel every hole is a guess. You lever out a wedge of soil, drop the bulb in, push the wedge back with your boot, and move on. By bulb forty you are not measuring anything. You are just getting it done before the light goes.
Then April arrives and the row is patchy, and you assume you bought a bad bag.
A planter takes the guess out. The barrel goes in to the same depth every time, so every bulb in the row sits at the same level and comes up together.
That is the whole trick. Not that it is faster, although it is. That the hundredth hole is as good as the first one.
It Cuts Turf, Which Is Where Bulbs Actually Look Best
Naturalizing bulbs into a lawn is the thing that makes a garden look like it has been there forty years, and it is the thing a trowel is worst at. The toothed stainless rim cuts through grass and root mat and lifts the plug out whole, so the turf goes back down over the bulb and closes up within a fortnight.
The Field & Harvest™ Guarantee
Take it out and plant a real run of bulbs with it. Not five. A proper row, in the ground you actually garden on. If you would rather go back to the trowel, send it back inside 60 days and we will refund you.
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