Black and Decker cordless cultivator=junk

old

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Well I tried the thing out a couple times. It clogs up real easy and while it sort of works but does not do what I need it to do. If the diggers spun instead of going back and forth it may have worked but in the soil I have it just not going to do the job. So I took it back today and got an Earthquake corded electric tiller from Menard's and going to see how it does. It was on sale for $99 plus has a mail in $10 rebate
 
Saw your other post, was wondering how it worked. I'd have a hard time with something like that in these soils when they dry and harden up. I've been collecting dry grass off the lawn, I let it dry like hay, get it when still green with the lawn sweep and use that for mulch on top to stop the weeds, seems to have a fair amount of nitrogen too, big clumps of it near corn really makes it grow well. Works well, keeps the ground moist, soft and no weeds at all.

Hard to cultivate a garden here, because it has to be fenced in. Given that, I found a small troy bilt, tuffy later called a pony maybe, its the smallest rear tine model they made, gave $125 for it, needed one part on it welded for the drive linkage to the handle bars, ran good, tines hardly worn, one owner, shed kept with a little fading, but that don't matter as I thought it would be great for cultivating a garden with a 15" tilling width, and its more substantial than the weed wacker or 2 cycle hand held ones. I see these more than not listed for sale, some up to $300, but others for half of that. Though I use the mulch, I thought this would be great for the larger garden if I can't put up enough mulch, but given what I mow, I think I've got enough, just a task to get it all spread more than anything.
 
I do what is called a square foot garden. Lots of stuff in a small area. So I needed a small cultivator or other such thing to help with weeds. I also do a lot of mulch but do not have enough lawn area to have enough grass clippings to do the whole thing. Plus have a number of plants to get in the ground yet but due to rains not been able to get them planted like I had hoped so have area that need tilled in some way to plant them
 
(quoted from post at 17:01:47 06/04/15) Well I tried the thing out a couple times. It clogs up real easy and while it sort of works but does not do what I need it to do. If the diggers spun instead of going back and forth it may have worked but in the soil I have it just not going to do the job. So I took it back today and got an Earthquake corded electric tiller from Menard's and going to see how it does. It was on sale for $99 plus has a mail in $10 rebate

I didn't think it was going to work Old. I was hoping maybe you'd luck out, but the odds were agin you.
 
I've done that in my small patch near the house, well very similar to what that Sq. Ft. lay out shows in photos off the web, but sometimes I've planted too many tomatoes ! It produced very well, just hard to walk around in there when harvesting. Bell peppers did well too, but at the end of the season. Some plants eventually shade the weeds out, so the initial grass mulch you put down when planting is essential, as I've let it go and then done it, best to lay it down right after or as you plant. I've got a bunch of grass mulch from last year, flattened by snow, so I can cut it to fit. Only thing I suspect is a problem is with cucumbers, powder mold, not sure if the grass mulch mold is the same thing, no other plants get it, maybe worse with too much rain. I've got more to plant as well, been too dry here, but we got a 2-3 day soaker, gentle rain, cool temps just starting to dry the surface. Well hope the new one you got works well, I hate getting behind on the garden as much as anyone LOL !
 
Another problem we are having here is rain and more rain. Not had so much as 4 dry days in a row in over a month. Hay needs cut and baled but can not do so due to rain. Tomato's are chest high and setting tomato's but been to wet for them to do well yet
 

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