Garden Tillers
Every serious gardener needs a hard-working garden tiller for cultivating new garden beds. A good garden tiller can go from the toughest job of busting up hardpan soil to lightly cultivating the soil around your precious garden plants. You’ll want to also keep in mind that garden tillers inevitably break down sooner or later, so check the prices of replacement parts for garden tillers as part of the buying process. Naturally, you’ll want to compare features and pricing between garden tillers so you get the best bargain for your money. Your garden tiller needs will most certainly differ from your neighbor’s, so choose wisely about the features in a tiller that are most important to you.
Some tillers can be fitted with attachments to do jobs other than garden tilling. Some of the small hand-held models can be equipped with dethatching tines or rotary brushes. Some of the larger rear-tine tillers can handle a snow/dirt blade or a middle buster (lister); and can have the entire tiller assembly replaced with a sicklebar mower, a shredder/grinder or even a generator. These attachments can be useful, but may not work as well as separate machines. You have to decide whether this capability will be useful for you.
A rotary tiller can contribute to the health of your garden soil by incorporating cover crops and green manure crops. A tiller can also be used in planting cover crops. After a seedbed is prepared, you can broadcast seed and then run the tiller over the ground at high speed and minimum depth to cover the seeds. A tiller is most effective at covering larger seeds such as peas. Small cover crop seeds such as ryegrass may be covered too deeply by a tiller; raking or dragging is more effective for small seeds.
The best purpose for a front tine tiller is maintaining soil that has been cultivated already. Try to till a new garden bed just one time and you’ll understand the work involved in using a front tine tiller. But get one of these tillers in a cultivated garden bed and they are pretty easy to work with. So if you’ve moved into your new home and there is an old garden that you plan to cultivate, then you should be able to get by with one of these tillers. Front tine tillers are also a little easier on the pocket book.
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