Retired garden tiller

Geo-TH,In · May 20, 2015

I retired my garden tiller. Instead, I use post hold digger, no more tilling. I cover garden in fall with leafs and bag some leafs too. Today I used terramite to clean off leafs, some were piled at edge of garden the other half got put in Miss Molly's Miracle grow Poo pile, Molly is a horse. I used the wheel base of terramite, 4 ft to make a grid pattern in garden. Them used a hand full of lime to mark where the holes go. Used a 12 inch post hole digger. The holes got filled with last years miracle grow. We plant tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and zucchini on the raised bed at edge. The leaf at the edge also got covered with miracle grow. I never use tiller. Leafs will be put down in a couple or weeks. Didn’t fill the holes all the way, so I have built in rain barrels.

No more getting shaken by garden tiller. Much easier using tractors.

gtractorfan · May 20, 2015

Now that's using the old noggin. I like it. Like you I use lots of leaves, also use them in the bottom of huge flower pots, fill the pot about a third with tamped down leaves with fertilizer mixed in, plants grow great but you can't have the pot on good cement cause the water that comes from them will stain.

jimg.allentown · May 20, 2015

I found that my tiller does an excellent job, and does not jar me or beat me up at all. The secret is counter-rotating tines. Something that Toy-Bilt has yet to figure out. I have a nice Yard-Man tiller that I have been using on my garden for about 15 years. Works GREAT!! And, every year, when the neighbors are raking and blowing their leaves to the curb for municipal pickup, I am blowing mine into the garden to become part of next year's fertilizer.

El Toro · May 23, 2015

I'm 82 and I still use my Troy Bilt tiller that I paid $100.00 for it. It needed tines, seals under the tine holders
and a new 10hp B&S engine. I sold the Tecumseh engine for $65.00. Hal

Geo-TH,In · May 23, 2015

You got a buy for $100. I had a troy built, good tiller, but very slow. My garden doubles over as a mulch pile in winter. No tiller can till under a foot of leafs.
All the composting gives my garden all kinds of worms. Some leafs are removed and added to new mulch pile, while some leafs get covered with last year's mulch for a raised bed at the edge.

El Toro · May 23, 2015

I use a cover crop in the Fall and I plow that under in the Spring. I use to buy used Troy Bilt tillers that needed
work. When they came out with interlocks on the handles, owners would leave them in the garden and couldn't get the engine started. I used a spray can of cleaner used for cleaning those old TV's with the turret turners to get the engine started. That tiller in the picture now has battery start. The new engine came with an electric starter, but I didn't install a battery for several years. I bought that engine from small engine warehouse. Hal

Geo-TH,In · May 23, 2015

Small engine warehouse is on the east side of my state, Indiana. Been there, nice place, good prices too. Located in the middle of the corn fields north of Muncie.

El Toro · May 25, 2015

My late dad and sister were born in Indiana. Near Crawfordsville. Hal

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