I recently checked the WOLF-Garten Interlocken ® DAS Crumbler and Soil Grower with an Interlocken ® handle (the deal with and tool are offered independently). The tool combines 2 separate executes, a grower and a stirrup hoe (WOLF-Garten refer to it as a “pendulum weeder”), into one unit, enabling you to perform more gardening tasks than either tool could manage alone.
About the Interlocken ® System
A huge feature of the WOLF-Garten ® Interlocken ® system is the ability to buy the tools and deals with independently. It works by snapping different tool heads into completion of a WOLF-Garten ® manage, thus removing the need for a range of various tools all with deals with. There are 10 various deals with, in lengths varying from 10 to 59 inches (plus telescoping handles that reach up to 13 feet), and over 60 gardening tool heads. You can blend and match manages and tools to produce simply the ideal combinations to satisfy your needs. For example, you might just need one manage however have several tool heads (that can quickly be positioned in a gardening bag or pail).
To connect a tool to an Interlocken ® handle, simply click the tool head into place on the accompanying handle. You can quickly change out the tool or deal with by pressing the red release button and pulling the tool far from the handle.
Product packaging
My grower and deal with was available in one long, thin plan. The tool was thoroughly wrapped to safeguard the spiked discs and DAS Crumbler throughout shipping. All I needed to do was snap the tool head into the deal with and I was ready to go.
About the Handle and Cultivating Tool
For this review, I utilized the long Interlocken ® manage with the grower (WOLF-Garten says it’s their very popular handle). The 59-inch pole is made of aluminum and weighs just 1 pound. You likewise can change to the 14-inch short manage for close-up cultivation while bending or kneeling, or purchase a medium length or telescoping deal with.
The WOLF- Garten ® grower weighs 2.6 pounds and measures about 17 inches from spiked discs to deal with. When added to the end of the long manage, the entire tool determines an overall of 77 inches.
The grower has 4 steel discs (well, they look more like spikes than discs) for cultivating, a steel stirrup hoe attached behind the discs, and can be found in at 8.3 inches wide.
Efficiency
Because the Interlocken ® DAS Crumbler & Soil Cultivator combines both a farmer and hoe, I utilized it to tackle gardening jobs I would generally make with among those tools. I tried using it to remove small weeds, separate and cultivate garden soil, and prepare a raised bed for planting.
I used the farmer throughout our extremely dry garden to loosen soil and get rid of small weeds. Having the stirrup-like blade on the tool indicated I could loosen up the soil with the disc blades and follow up with the stirrup blade to actually eliminate those weeds. It’s great to have one tool to perform both functions with just one or more pushes and is an actual time saver when you have a big location to cover and lots of shallow rooted or recently sprung weeds.
The spiked discs on the grower handled to loosen up the leading inch of soil (less in harder, compacted soil) and the stirrup-like blade did a great task of slicing through the leading layer of soil. I think that a much shorter deal with would’ve given me more utilize to push deeper into the soil (more on that below).
I likewise used the WOLF-Garten ® DAS Crumbler and Soil Cultivator to loosen up the soil, include some compost, and level everything in my Garden in Minutes raised bed. The WOLF Garten ® tool accomplished all of that rather perfectly. The disc blades helped blend in the compost I disposed in the bed, and I even used the wide stirrup blade to spread out soil; it wasn’t as reliable as a bow rake, but it worked fine for the little raised bed.The deal with and tool are lightweight, minimizing fatigue and making it simple to carry around the yard.
In general, the tool is durable (there’s no wobbling where the head attaches to the handle) and extremely efficient at cultivating and weeding the leading layers of soil. The addition of the stirrup hoe makes it more efficient than simply a farmer by itself.