So i grew my KBG sod pots and today i wanted to plant them. I soon learned it was a PITA to get down on your hands and knees and dig with a small spade/trowel. So here i am looking for a much more efficient way to do this. I know the Yardiac Sod Plugger is way too small for the 5 inch pots i'm using so the best thing i can find is this.


Post Hole Digger


Will this work? or am i just fooling myself? or does anyone know a better option?

i just need one that will do 5-6 inches wide? the digger looks like it does 5.5 inches. i just want anything that will reduce my time kneeling down.

yeh JG used the old little spade/trowel, the bulb planters were too small for the pots too. he used the sod plugger for his plugs.

Sorry, no substitute to hands and knees. I use a small spade (5-6 inch blade), looks like a mini shovel. Hand spade/trowel is too small.

I planted 120 of them this year, its a lot of up and down. Get yourself a pair of carhartt pants and buy the foam inserts for the knees.

nothing0 wrote:I use the sod plugger for 5 inch pots. Yes it is to small, but it still works well. After the first plug, I make another at an angle to make a star. If the pot is to big for that to work, just chip at the edges of the first hole until it's acceptable. I think you will disturb less soil with the sod plugger, which was very important to me.

Edit. JG- I thought you used the plugger too? plugger and mallet = no up and down

Sod plugger only for plugs, not for pots. I like the larger 6" pots.

BTW, I have a spray bottle of Barricade to spray around the pots since the soil was disturbed.

found this


Radius Garden Bulb planter

It says its 7.5 inch wide probably accounting for the handle. The bulb part might be around 5 inches or so.

I don't have any pre-em on hand except for Tenacity? You think that would be ok to spray around the pots? at least to kill any of the weeds that germinate?

I planted 3 inch pots. 3" is quite small and not ideal, but it still works. I bought the peat pots at a gardening store near my house, they only had 3" peat pots and they were dirt cheap. I used a bulb planter from Lowes that was cheap too. Less than 5 bucks. With moist soil, I planted two pots to repair dog urine damage, took less than 5 mins and very very little effort.

Looks good, although that wouldn't even qualify for a hole in my book. That's a "I'll wait 4 weeks and let it close." Your grass looks great (and that soil looks good as well).