Garden Auger Review - Planting Bare Root Laurels
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- My review of the 'Garden Auger' or 'Power Planter' or 'Bulb Planter' or similar!?!?!
Watch me plant 100 laurel plants using this device and give my feedback on if it's worth bothering with.
Amazon links to the equipment / items used in this video...
► Dewalt 18v Combi Drill: amzn.to/2MiM71A
► Auger: amzn.to/2LOwS0P
► Rootgrow Mycorrhizal Fungi: amzn.to/3iDy0QC
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A new beech hedge is being planned for the Autumn. This will be very very handy & I have just ordered one. Thank you for the excellent tip.
You do seem to have the darkest and best looking soil in the UK! I’m jealous. Mine’s heavy clay with flint!
I got a load of those locals in the front of my garden. Hate them. They take too much trimming every 6 months. You are better off with something else
Always nice when a tool already pays for itself on the first job. Definitely would want a side handle on that drill or use the clutch.
Absolutely
These any good in hard compacted earth?
Where did you get the single laurels
Is laurel hardy ?
Actually don't answer that - coz then Hardy would have to be laurel 😂🙈
Just planted 70 hornbeam bushes, thankyou for the auger tip..worked perfectly
How do you think this auger would behave in an impact driver instead of the drill?
Have had 4 different sized ones for 5 years or so. Great idea and good for digging holes in the garden for vegetable scraps, worms love it. Make sure no bones or meat scraps or dogs will dig it up. Longer more narrow ones can dig into hard clay pretty easily.
Thanks for the tips!
Nice one
I used an actual post hole augur (T handle type) in the past to plant pot-grown shrubs. Works a treat. I think I’d rather use a hand powered augur to avoid filling my drill with dirt and grit, though the T handle is no good close to a fence or wall…wonder if I could use it with an old ratchet bit brace?
Imagine if you cut a circle of card out with an 80mm hole in the middle and a cut along the radius, you could drill the hole in the ground through the middle of the card and then convert the card to a funnel (Think a dog collar of shame) and just drop the earth back in to backfill the hole.
Not sure I would have gone with Laurel, grows fast but can be a PITA matures.
I understand - can do. I'm in a new house so I need something fast growing
An excellent tool and a cheap addition to the tool shed. I use mine a lot now, due to a neck injury, I can't dig now, but this works great and saves the pain
I agree
Yet another helpful video we seriously need more. Keep it up
Thanks. Lots more coming!
Hi Stuart, I'm learning lots of new things in your videos. Thank you. Ive also bought one of these augers, haven't used it yet, i want to plant a small fence post. Paid £8,58 on Temu.Will let you know how that has gone once done.
Great video, and great tip about the need to use the clutch. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Yes, a drill with a clutch setting is 100% a necessity... I learned the hard way.
Cheers from Los Angeles!
Nice to see viewers from LA!
Great Jim, from your your video I just learned that in our climate we should be buying longer versions of these auger bits. If it would be 60 cm long, your drill would probably still be clean. With around 75 cm you could have drilled the holes standing comfortably.
A toothbrush dipped in watered down fairy liquid and shook over a paper towel, to clean out the crevices on my dealt does wonders.
I wonder if applying a layer of turtle wax would make it easier to clean?
OK - I'll try that - weeks later I still have some small crevices blocked!!!
I have just bought two of them, one the same size as yours and the other half the size. I also use the big one to stir my compost heap, thanks very much about the tip on using the clutch setting as my garden is like a builders yard. I have subscribed.
Good stuff!
Thanks for the video, what number you put on the clutch so it can stop when hit the rock? As I have ryobi brand not sure the clutch work differently?
Handy little tool. This definitely looks like one of those tools where you spend a little bit of money but the tool more than pays for itself. I bet you did that job in a fraction of the time it would have taken using a trowel etc, well worth a tenner even if only used once.
Exactly. If I only had 5 to put in I would have used a trowel but 50 is a different matter!
Thank you!
Please publish more of video's, I can't wait.
Great! Next one out tomorrow - lots more to come.
the downside is your going to have to cut a bloody great hedge , and laurel grows like the clappers...
I glad I found this channel I have one of these augers for two-ish years haven't used it yet house repaires first. How does the hedge look now?
Thats not a garden that's a farm m8 :-) I've got one of them its awesome but the dirt goes everywhere.
Absolutly love your videos. One point though: please make the more consistent, to hear your voice I need to have the video on full volume, but need to lower when music gets on to almost lowest to not jump out of my trousers :) thanks again for excellent content
I got an auger to plant my bulbs but the auger wont dig through the roots in my garden.
Hi Mr. Proper! After years of being able to toss bags of dirt and mulch, then rolling around in the dirt planting flowers, suddenly, it has all come to a halt. I can no longer keep my balance when I put my foot on a shovel. I fall! Not to be defeated, I started to look up other ways to dig a hole when I plant flowers and TA DAH!! Here you are. I've heard of Laurel wreaths worn upon the heads of Romans, and, to rest on one's laurels. Heck, I've heard of LAUREL AND HARDY! But I've never see an actual Laurel plant. I've learnt SO MUCH today! So hey, thanks for your video. I would love to see how your hedge looks now after three years' growth
Check out my latest video - you’ll see them in the end section
Maybe you could do the painting when it's been raining that will help the ground as it would be soft.
Nice review , i cant wait until mine gets delivered
Definitely on the list. Great tool!! Can highly recommend getting at least one 5Ah XR battery. Makes it through heavy jobs!
Correct. I do need to invest in a 5Ah - and a proper branded one
@@ProperDIY When I bought the angle grinder (for welding prep) I sprung for the DeWalt battery. Worth it I think. Just spotted DeWalt make a baby XR chainsaw.... 😬
For fence post holes and the auger is a longer length, what a time saver. Excellent video. Thanks.
Thank you
@@ProperDIYim using this to make a small cave near the hill,is it good to use this tool for that matter?
Could one or more of these extensions be used if boring deeper holes? Possibly for post hole digging?
Gasea 12" Long Magnetic Screwdriver Bit Holder 1/4 Inch Hex Shank Quick Release Drill Bit Extension: Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools
Could do but the posts that I put it need a lot bigger hole!
Like the idea. We're planning on doing the same with a few hundred hawthorn which are supposed to be good for nature.
Fancy coming to help? 🙂
I'm busy that day!
For the love of god! will you publish more videos🤣. Seriously keep up the great content it's greatly appreciated 👍
Thanks will do
just subscribed today from Ireland. spent the whole evening and watched ALL of your videos, looking foreward to more, very clear direction with some great tips
Awesome, thank you! Lots more to come on all kinds of subjects.
I bought one after seeing the video but no luck with my clay soil. It works to some extent but got stuck too often. Any solutions out there maybe the way how I shall drill?
My soil is quite heavy. I found not letting the drill get away from you a just pulling a little up at a time then 'emptying' it from the auger was easier on me and the drill.
Still used a mains powered DeWalt though, and after a dozen or so holes my back started aching from pulling.
Nothing worse than getting a load of dirt in your drill. I know I've had trouble with the chuck on one of my 18v dewalt cordless drills off the back of doing garden work. It was recommended to me to give the chuck a healthy dose of wd40 to get rid of most of the gritty nasties that get in there.
I caught your post to the wall video and then went onto the planter boxes. We'll soon be doing hanging baskets with the residents so will probably look at knocking a few of your planters together too.
I enjoy the simplicity of your videos, easy to understand and easy to see what's being done and how its being done without too much fuss. Keep up the good work 👍
Thank you so much for the great feedback. I need to keep the videos simple as I would be the first to get confused if I didn't!!! My drill clutch hasn't worked properly since that day in the garden - I will give it some WD40. Lots more to come!
You’ve got a decent size garden there. Cant be London the accent could be though
Essex I'm afraid!
Nice job, be nice to see how much they have grown this year, update video maybe 😃👍
Will do after 12 months
I've got one of these (different product but same idea) but haven't had any success yet. I think it depends on soil type and condition. In my case I've got clay (quite wet at the moment) so the auger just cuts in like a knife without bringing any material up. I will give it another go when the ground has dried out a bit and see if that changes things. Ironically I bought it to dig drainage holes in a waterlogged lawn!
Oh ok. I must say unlike a drill bit, you actually end up pulling rather than pushing. If you push the sugar digs rapidly into the soil and you essential get stuck. Try holding the drill at the same height while the auger is radiply turning and drop in depth bit by bit
I'm thinking of trying this on my lawn too Chris, same issue's with clay soil. Was thinking of back filling with sharp sand/grit as well.
Where did you buy your bare root laurels? How are the laurels coming along would love see how they’re looking😀
I found them through eBay. They are just starting to really get going - buds everywhere and I think the next few days with better weather they will double in size.
@@ProperDIY thank you 🙏🏼
Hi, great videos. Just wondering how long those laurels will take to get to 6ft?
I'm finding it depends on the soil. Some are now only 18" high and some 3' and bushy so I recon 2-3 years on average
They may finish up 20’ x 10’ depending on the variety!
Brilliant 🤩 thanks
Glad you liked it!
very interesting tool
Very!
Putting that straight on my Amazon wish list
Nice one!
up to date picture of how the hedge is getting on please in your next video. Keep well and safe and all the best.
Now do a vid of you trying to cut the grass between and behind them!
No need, as they grow, everything underneath will die from lack of water and sun! Try growing something under a hedge - doesn't work.
Paul might have a point . No , nothing is going to grow under an evergreen hedge once it is established , I agree , but in the meantime the grass ,which is established IS going to grow , and will take up any water or fertiliser meant for the laurels
You are correct. However, I had to balance that with the alternative of removing, disposing and replacing 30m x 0.5m of turf!!! Call me lazy but that is a large amount of material that I am still really glad I didn't decide to kill myself moving - and the laurels are coming on great!
@@ProperDIY I agree that the grass will give up once the leaf canopy shades it out. In the meantime, the grass is definitely competing for light, water and nutrients. Personally I’d mulch around them with a bulk bag of mushroom compost or wood chip to kill that grass. There are ways of killing grass before planting that don’t involve digging and removing material....weedkiller (which I personally won’t use any more) or a light excluding mulch (compost piled on for a few months then plant through it). Anyway, great video and you’ve made a hard job easy. I appreciate it was a tool review and not a gardening video in any case. That auger would be excellent for planting bulbs into grass. Cheers.