OK, I'm converted. I love the efficiency of this system. There is a bit of learning curve to get the correct consistency. What I've figured out is you don't have to baby this. It is a robust tool and you want to really pack the soil in there so that it retains its shape. Once you get the hang of it, it's efficient and even fun. This size is great for cucumbers and similar larger type seeds easily accommodating good growth and can go straight into the garden without any additional transplanting.

It's a very handy and helpful tool for starting your plants off of seed. However the soil mix needs to be spongey and moist to stay in the soil blocks.

Makes large batches of blocks so easy and so much faster.

We've used this tool for several seasons now. Once the soil is mixed correctly, it can make hundreds of blocks in short order, without the wear to wrists that a smaller tool would produce.