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Old 06-04-2011, 03:38 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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"Billy" wrote in message
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"Steve Peek" wrote:

Does anyone have a suggestion for a new rear tine tiller? Due to my
disability I can no longer use my 30 year old troybuilt horse. I need
something big enough to cultivate over 4000 sq ft. but easily manageable.
Thanks,
Steve


Sorry about your disability. Why do you prefer turning the ground
instead of no-dig (no-till) gardening? In part, no-dig gardening is
simplifying gardening for us geezers, the other part is to keep the work
that the earthworms and the network of fungal hyphae that gives soil
structure. This includes the mychorrhizal network that is important to
plants, more so for perennials, but still important for annuals.

"The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow." - Anon

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- Billy
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius
of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at
all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on
a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953
http://wn.com/black_panther_party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vN0--mHug

It's not the turning, it's for shallow hoeing of the weeds between the rows.