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

Well made and good design. Planted around 100 bulbs shortly after it arrived and couldn’t have been easier. Has the feel of something that’ll last a long time.

I did read the reviews before buying this. True that in clay soil, it is tough to use....but in wet clay soil...it can be used! Yes the soil is tough, but lean on to this and it can be twisted as you push down...it has not broken....and the soil is lifted out. Put in bulb and release the soil back on top. Fab!This is what I wanted it for....in the grass it was more tricky, and true a trowel did the job better, so gave 4 stars and not 5. However, worth the cost for my boarders and ease of putting in my replenished stock of bulbs.

Make planting bulbs very quick and easy. Robust and well made

I grow my plants for my allotment in 9cm pots, the same size as this bulb planter. Example, autumn broad beans grown to 10” height, then compact soil, take out bulb soil, few chicken pellets in the bottom, tap plant out of pot, put straight in soil & press home, no root damage, no plant disturbance, plants recover within a day & keep growing.Bought loads of garden centre or DIY store versions, sides bend, clog, handles give up.Planted 18 beans in 12 minutes, cores empty easily, lever is much better than squeezing handle. Quick wash with brush, hang up & dried. So sturdy, will last many seasons, wish had paid a bit more at the beginning, but we all learn eventually.Really recommend this product as a planting aid.

Well made but even in v wet low to hedium clay soil it struggles.Have to put a lot of force down on it and jiggle it left and right, manage to get a bit of soil 1inch out then do bit more and hopefully get hug more than 1inch. and carry on until get full 10cm depth required for bulbs.Only once or twice in slightly softer more crumbly soil I got 6inch max out of soil.Then the soil regardless gets stuck and have to bang it a lot to get the soil out. Or hit with a small shovel/ spade.Only real way I could get 10inch out of the soil in one go is to use a proper long handle bulb planter or hole digger.This isn't easy to use but it can just about do the job in soil which is clayish.If you have good quality crumbly soil it'll do what it is designed for. It can't really cope v well with clay.Would I buy again? Probably not. But it does make it slightly easier than simply digging.

Amazing. I never knew these tools existed.Planted some gawjuss tulips.

Helps to plant the bulbs

I have used the tinny ones which cost nearly as much as this one they don’t last long before they buckle this one will last a long time well made great value for money