Manufacturer | Sun Joe |
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Place of Business | EDISON, NJ, 08817 US |
Item model number | TJ599E |
Product Dimensions | 12.7 x 20.32 x 43.18 cm; 4.49 kg |
ASIN | B007PQNEQ4 |

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Brand | Sun Joe |
Colour | Green |
Product Dimensions | 118D x 21W x 22H Centimetres |
Power source | Corded Electric |
Material | Plastic |
Item weight | 4.49 kg |
Operation mode | Manual |
Global Trade Identification Number | 00852137003566 |
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About this item
- Powerful Cultivator: Cultivates up to 6.3" wide and 6" deep, providing efficient soil preparation for planting, aerating, and breaking up compacted soil with ease
- Gas-Free, Cord-Free Operation: Say goodbye to gas, oil, and tune-ups. Offers a simple, easy-to-use design that starts effortlessly without the need for maintenance
- Durable Steel Blades: Equipped with 4 high-quality steel tines that ensure maximum durability and long-lasting performance, even when tackling tough soil and garden tasks
- Ergonomic Design: Features an adjustable telescoping shaft and a comfortable ergonomic handle to reduce strain, making it easier to maneuver while working in your garden for extended periods
- Go with Joe: Joe brands designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of innovative, affordable, and high-quality consumer tools for the home, yard, garden, and garage. With people-first and purpose-driven solutions in mind, we are dedicated to providing the right tool at the right price, making it easy to Go With Joe to get the job done.
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Snow Joe + Sun Joe
Snow Joe + Sun Joe specialize in developing innovative outdoor tools to keep your home looking beautiful throughout the year, whether the snow is falling or the Sun is shining. Our expansive line of outdoor power equipment, which includes manual, cordless, and electric tools such as lawn mowers, trimmers, tillers, and snow blowers, aims to simplify your yard routine to make it quick and easy to get your outdoor chores done.
Ground-breaking + Back-saving!
Quickly and easily cultivate your garden and get ready for planting.
The Aardvark TJ599E electric cultivator from Sun Joe packs a powerful punch for quick soil turnover. The Sun Joe Aardvark TJ599E cultivates up to 6-inches deep with its four durable steel tines.
The TJ599E garden cultivator is powered by a reliable 2.5 amp electric motor, which means no more messing with gas and oil. Simply plug in your Aardvark electric cultivator and start cultivating instantly. Enrich your gardening experience with the Aardvark electric cultivator from Sun Joe.
- Best use: Small gardens and flower beds
- Maximum Cultivating Width: 6.3 in.
- Instant Start; No gas, oil or tune-ups make it effortless to start
- Weight: 9.9 pounds
Key Features
2.5-Amp Motor
The TJ599E garden cultivator is powered by a reliable 2.5 AMP electric motor, which means no more messing with gas and oil.
Ergonomic Handle
Ergonomic handle design with adjustable telescoping shaft makes for effortless cultivating.
Steel Tilling Blades
The Sun Joe Aardvark TJ599E cultivates up to 6-inches deep with its four durable steel tines.
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Motor | 2.5 amp | 6.5 amp | 9 amp | 8 amp | 12 amp |
Cultivating Width (max) | 6.3 in. | 14 in. | 18 in. | 12 in. | 16 in. |
Cultivating Depth (max) | 6 in. | 7 in. | 7 in. | 8 in. | 8 in. |
Instant Start | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Collapsible Handle | - no data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Wheel Adjustment | N/A | N/A | 7-position | 3-position | 3-position |
Tilling Blades (Steel) | 4 blades | 4 blades | 6 blades | 4 blades | 6 blades |
Product details
- Is discontinued by manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 12.7 x 20.32 x 43.18 cm; 4.49 kg
- Date First Available : Oct. 10 2012
- Manufacturer : Sun Joe
- Place of Business : EDISON, NJ, 08817 US
- ASIN : B007PQNEQ4
- Item model number : TJ599E
- Country of origin : China
- 鶹 Rank: #3,058 in Patio, Lawn & Garden (See Top 100 in Patio, Lawn & Garden)
- #6 in Cultivators & Tillers
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Enrich your gardening experience with the Aardvark TJ599E from Sun Joe. Cultivate your garden and get ready for planting with ease. The Sun Joe Aardvark has a cultivating depth of six-Inch. The TJ599E features four steel tines for maximum durability. The TJ599E is powered by a reliable 2.5 Amp electric motor. No more messing with gas and oil. The Aardvark TJ599E comes with a full two year warranty.
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power source | Corded Electric | Battery Powered | Battery Powered | Corded Electric | hand powered | Corded Electric |
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Customers like the functionality, ease of use, and weight of the soil tiller cultivator. They mention it works well in well-tilled soil, is easy to control, and makes garden bed preparation a breeze. Some also say it's great for smaller garden areas. However, some customers have different opinions on power, effectiveness, durability, and maneuverability.
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Customers like the functionality of the product. They mention it works awesome, works fine in well-tilled soil, and is a totally useful and helpful tool for gardening. Some say it works well for little patches or between plants.
"This is heavy, but it works great! Cut the time in half turning over all the gardens! Would recommend" Read more
"Works great. My soil was really compacted and this cultivator did a nice job breaking it up. It was very easy to use...." Read more
"Thing works great. Jams up easy on little stones, but worked over the flower beds like nothing...." Read more
"Does not quite work as well as expected. The soil must be well turned before this equipment is useful...." Read more
Customers like the ease of use of the product. They mention it's extremely easy to use, even for seniors, and makes garden bed preparation a breeze.
"...We build a garden from the ground up. And got the job done with very little effort." Read more
"Love that this is lightweight and very easy to ise" Read more
"...It was very easy to use. I purchased this on March 2025 at $92.50 CAD." Read more
"Works well but requires some user strength to handle the unit effectively. However, its a well built unit and does its job as advertised." Read more
Customers like the weight of the product. They mention it's very light and easy to handle in small places.
"Love that this is lightweight and very easy to ise" Read more
"...In the raised beds the machine is so light that I could pick it up and work the soil from inside the beds...." Read more
"I'm disabled so it was important that the machine be easy to use and light which of course made it easy to keep away from the rocks around my garden..." Read more
"This is heavy, but it works great! Cut the time in half turning over all the gardens! Would recommend" Read more
Customers like the size of the soil tiller cultivator. They mention it's great for cultivating smaller areas in between plants and control weeds between rows. Some say it's ideal for tight spaces and easy to store.
"Good for a small garden but be careful of rocks as they will easily get stuck in the blades. Other than that it works good so far." Read more
"...a unit for tilling large, open areas, but it is perfect for working around closely spaced plants in a small to medium sized garden bed." Read more
"No too heavy and I can use it around plants. Great for smaller size garden." Read more
"...He wanted something small, lightweight but up to the task. This has worked out fine for him...." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the power of the soil tiller cultivator. Some mention it's very powerful for the size of the machine, while others say it's not powerful enough for packed ground and the motor isn't enough powerful. Some also say it has lots of power to pull up weeds and mix the soil without tearing up huge areas.
"This little but powerful machine, was put though the test. And it won my heart over. We build a garden from the ground up...." Read more
"Awful. Gutless. Not enough power even for raised beds. Stalls and makes noises. 3 days past return window, so I can't even get my money back...." Read more
"...It has lots of power to pull up weeds and mix the soil without tearing up huge areas of the garden...." Read more
"...This is not a high power device." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the effectiveness of the soil tiller cultivator. Some mention it digs deep, turns soil well, and plows weeds under. However, others say it labors a bit under heavier soil and small rocks have to be cleared from tines fairly regularly by hand.
"...Once I got the jist of working the tiller it was AMAZING!! Fast, efficient, work horse to do big beds but narrow enough to go between my plants...." Read more
"...He did say that there were times that it labored a bit under heavier soil but that overall he was satisfied with the product...." Read more
"...beds the machine is so light that I could pick it up and work the soil from inside the beds...." Read more
"...and it dug into the hard soil about 4 inches no problem, plowing the weeds under and leaving a nice even tilled look...." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the durability of the soil tiller cultivator. Some mention it's a well-made product with a solid housing and handle. However, others say it doesn't do the hard stuff and is enough strong for compact soil.
"It works very well for the price and quality...." Read more
"Very very weak... was to be used in a very small existing garden... Product barely works... Had to return for refund....." Read more
"Purchased this for my father in law and he really enjoys it. Great product!!" Read more
"...However, its a well built unit and does its job as advertised." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the maneuverability of the product. Some mention it's easy to maneuver around plants and can easily be lifted in and out of raised garden beds. However, others say the tines stop spinning and slips at the slightest bit of resistance.
"...It struggles with too many weeds and often the tines will stop spinning, especially when jammed...." Read more
"...It uprooted almost all of the weeds. It was easy to maneuver around plants and doesn't go so deep as to ruin their roots...." Read more
"...At the slightest bit of resistance it slips and needs to be helped along again to get it spinning...." Read more
"...When the tiller was expected to till, the tines would stop moving... i was just trying to till around existing garden veggies in the garden... no..." Read more
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- Reviewed in Canada on June 7, 2025Verified PurchaseI received mine a few days ago. Was heavier than expected but that seems to be due to the ruggedness of the lower end including the motor. Need to fully loosen the knob holding the lower handle in place before trying to rotate it as it has ratchet type bumps that hold it in place, not just friction fit. Tried it on my recently planted vegetable garden. Easy to use & control & quite fast. I really liked the job it did of quickly fine tilling the ground near the plants to let water soak in. Also tilled general garden ares to get rid of the many small weeds that had become to sprout. Very happy with it. Time will tell if it last but my bet is that it will be good for a few years.
- Reviewed in Canada on May 24, 2025Verified PurchaseReally surprised at how well this worked. Soil is hard clay every spring, this thing chew it up no problem. I couldn’t believe how fine the soil became.
Really surprised at how well this worked. Soil is hard clay every spring, this thing chew it up no problem. I couldn’t believe how fine the soil became.
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- Reviewed in Canada on May 22, 2025Verified PurchaseThis is heavy, but it works great! Cut the time in half turning over all the gardens! Would recommend
- Reviewed in Canada on May 13, 2025Verified PurchaseThis little but powerful machine, was put though the test. And it won my heart over. We build a garden from the ground up. And got the job done with very little effort.
This little but powerful machine, was put though the test. And it won my heart over. We build a garden from the ground up. And got the job done with very little effort.
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- Reviewed in Canada on June 5, 2025Verified PurchaseKNOW BEFORE TOU BUY, AMAZON WILL NOT ACCEPT A RETURN ON THIS ITEM. Even though it is not useful at all. Not sure what other people are doing with it, but it barely mixes up loose soil, much less actually tills the ground.
You'd be better off taking your kitchen hand mixer to break up soil than this thing.
I have a 25$ hand tiller that works better. Now I have an expensive grass comber and the company cares not because they have their money and 鶹 is even less good than temu, shein or wish, but double the price. They are outsourcing sales to the same companies you find on the other sites, but with major markups.
Don't buy this. And shop the cheaper sites. They have better return policies as well.
- Reviewed in Canada on May 21, 2025Verified PurchaseI needed a small tiller for my flower beds. Love it.
- Reviewed in Canada on May 20, 2025Verified PurchaseLove that this is lightweight and very easy to ise
- Reviewed in Canada on May 4, 2025Verified PurchaseWorks great. My soil was really compacted and this cultivator did a nice job breaking it up. It was very easy to use. I purchased this on March 2025 at $92.50 CAD.
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- P. SchmidtReviewed in the United States on April 30, 2025
1.0 out of 5 stars So underpowered it is nearly useless for ther intended purpose
Verified PurchaseI bought this product "Sun Joe TJ599E Electric Garden Cultivator, 6.3-inch, 2.5-Amp, Adjustable Shaft" to perform small-scale tilling operations on my three small raised gardens, hoping that its small size and light weight would make it easier to perform the tasks of soil-loosening (tilling) and the mixing in of compost and mulch. The majority of reviews I read on 鶹 made me think that this product could do the job, however I was still mindful of those other reviews that stated the product had insufficient power.
The product was apparently shipped directly from the seller (Spreetail), not from 鶹's own warehouse. As it happened, it arrived by FedEx just as I had finished spreading a couple inches of peat moss across the tops of the three gardens, on top of the first few inches of garden soil that I had already loosened with a garden spade.
I inspected the product, read the few pages of the manual that were in English (unusually, they were fairly well written in clear English). I adjusted the handle and the telescoping 'boom' or shaft, and connected the power cord. The trigger requires that the user press an 'unlock' safety button, which I did, and the product's motor ran and the 'tines' rotated as expected.
But when I lowered the tine head to contact the top of the peat moss/soil, the tines immediately stopped, although the sound and pitch of the motor did not change perceptibly, as if a clutch had been released. I raised the head a few inches and the tines resumed rotation. I worked for perhaps five minutes, experimenting with how much down pressure could be applied and how deep the tines could be in the loose soil before they would stop, and the answer was that I could have stopped them by holding a pencil in their way. They essentially had enough power to rotate in the air, but not enough power to do anything useful.
I called the "contact us" phone number listed on the user's manual, and was rewarded with 20+ minutes of loud, raucous 'music' before somebody came on the line. She seemed to have no actual knowledge of the product, and seemed to just be looking things up. After I described the problem, she seemed nonplussed (unperturbed), as if people call about this problem all the time. She suggested that I could have them send me a replacement unit, or return it to 鶹. By this, I concluded that they are quite aware of this issue. Nothing was offered in regard to applicability of the product to my application, which I had described to here.
So, I initiated a return/refund request through 鶹, but had to send the unit back to the seller rather than to 鶹.
Besides the product not working adequately, I can offer the following observations:
- The plastic parts are cheaply made and had mold-flashing along the edges; one rarely sees such roughly made plastic parts these days.
- From the sound made when I rotated the times by hand (easily done, by the way, and with the power cord disconnected), it seems that a set of gears (probably plastic ones) connect between the electric motor and the tines' shaft.
- The telescoping handle worked adequately and did not slip back under use that way that some other reviewers have reported.
- The left-hand handle (the other handle, with the trigger, is clearly designed to he held by the right hand) has a cheap and roughly designed angle adjustment. A knurled knob needs to be backed WAY off, and then the handle tugged forcefully into a new position before re-tightening the knurled knob.
- The tines are only something like 2~3 inches long, so (power aside) this product can't be used to till deeply.
- This product is variously referred to as 'tiller' and a 'cultivator'; those terms don't mean the same thing, and the design of the product makes 'tiller' the more appropriate name. The user COULD pull the tines between rows of plants to do some 'cultivating' (removal of weeds), but the description of the product's operation in the manual seems to be more about 'tilling'. In order to 'till', this product would need to have a much more robust drivetrain, even in shallow soil that is free of heavy clay and such.
- JacqueReviewed in the United States on April 9, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to operate
Verified PurchaseEasy to operate, great for basic lawn and garden use. I have a 1 acre yard, half of which is lawn and flower garden. I'm eager to try the tiller on the wild area outside the fence.
- Amanda M JimenezReviewed in the United States on March 25, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Great garden tool
Verified PurchaseSo far great garden tool have used for two large garden beds - way better than pulling weeds by hand. Read the instructions before use and you shouldn't have any issues. Came in a timely fashion and no assembly was required. Not too heavy and easy to use. Only had to shut down once and pull a few tangled weed roots from the rotor. Happy with it!!
- g.m.terrellReviewed in the United States on March 28, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Keeping extension cord safely away from your feet and tiller.
Verified PurchaseJust used it today. Rain finally stopped. I am pleased with this tiller. Need to be careful with the extension cord. I had been working with a battery operated tiller. This tiller has more power than battery operated tillers.