Rotary Garden Tool, Adjustable Hand Tiller, Long Handle Cultivator for Aerating, Weeding, Planting and Mixing Soil or Reseeding Grass

The "Rotary Cultivator Tool, Adjustable Garden Hand Tiller Cultivator, Long Handle Rotary Cultivator, Aerate, Weed, Plant, Garden Cultivator for Soil Mixing or Reseeding Grass" from the BARAYSTUS Store is a high quality, heavy duty cultivator. I like it a lot better than the ones you can get from the big box stores and it's a bit cheaper to boot. The head is quite a bit bigger than I expected at around 8 inches in total width with a cultivating width of right around 6 inches. The handle comes in three sections so you can have a short handle if you want one. When all three sections are attached the total length is 56 inches from the shaft the tines rotate around to the end of the handle. That's pretty much perfect for me (I'm just a shade over 6ft). Because of the design of the tines, it takes a couple of passes to totally break up the soil. Everything about this cultivator feels solid and I have no doubts it will last for years with minimal care. Very happy with this item.

I am looking forward to using this in the spring to work fertilizer and pre emergent into my azalea and camellia beds. It works best where my soil is sandiest. We are having a bit of a dry spell lately so I really had to work it where my soil is more clay like. It is nice that it is adjustable in length and that you can store it in separate pieces though I plan to mainly use it at its longest possible length and store it that way. I am not really fond of the foamy material on handle. I'll probably tape over it as some point.

We have some bare patches of lawn that need some TLC and get generally re-seeded. I got this manual cultivator tool because we don't have huge patches to work on, each one is just around a foot by 2 feet.My use for this is also compost bedding cultivation - when I prep the beds in the fall and in the spring, I want to be able to go over the soil and compost layers and break things up.So far this has been great! It's pretty lightweight so it's not too heavy to carry around, but the spikes at the bottom seem durable. If you're doing this on dry soil, you WILL have to work hard and put muscle into it, so I recommend slightly moist soil for cultivator use. The handle is not wrapped, so I do recommend using gloves.It was able to easily cultivate my spots, and I found it was easiest to do it in rows, and then an angle in order to get the most benefit.

We have the aerator shoes at home. And while they work, it is a slow process. This rotary is much faster. In the grass we do a quick single pass by to give it a few holes per foot. In the garden it gets many passings to break up the soil. In either case, it is working well. The end is larger and heavier than it seemed in photos. Which is a good thing. The handle is metal and plastic. So far it is strong and sturdy. But we will see how it does after going through the varying temperatures of winter.

The poles screw together quite well with the threads actually sliding up inside the opposing pole a good 4 inches before screwing into their sockets. this should prevent the threads from getting damaged from applying shear forces to the pole when applying a lot of pressure on harder dirt's. I'm quite please with this cultivator. the tines are cast from some sturdy metal, bot sure what. if feels heavier than dense aluminum, but not quite like iron/steel? they might be some grade of iron though.

If you’re in between a rolling cultivator/aerator and one of the manual pluggers, go with the roller.As someone with both, I wish I would have started with this device first. It does require a fair bit of pressure to truly rough up the dirt, but it is far more effecient than the pogo stick aerator you may have looked at.Construction overall seems good - I was a bit disapointed to find the internal parts of the pole are plastic threads, however the pieces do overlap ~3inches, and slide inside one another before tightening. This gives me confidence that the handle won’t snap, as the true pressure will be placed on the overlapping metal joints.

I think this aerate tool is strong enough but I might not be doing it right because it is a hard to start but once you put a bit of elbow to it you start seeing the earth crack a bit. Maybe my soil down here in South Florida might be a bit hard even though it had rained a lot.

I wanted something simple (and non-powered) for us to till small areas around the house. When I first ordered this I thought it might be a bit small or maybe not even strong enough.I was very wrong on both accounts -- in a good way.This is very solid, steel construction. The tines on this look very menacing to any patch of dirt that wants to stand in its way.Additionally, it's a bit bigger than it looks, which is nice as it has a nice height for the handle, and the tines are bigger and will definitely sink into the dirt to till.It also is not too wide for the amateur gardener who has a small patch or needs to till around corners or small spaces.