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power tiller: to get or not to get one
david wrote:
: "Betsy" -0 wrote in message ... : I love my little Honda, which I bought after renting a Mantis several times : and watching the fees add up fast. : : I've used it to turn sod into perennial beds. I've used it to dig holes for : trees. I've used it to level a 50x30 foot patch of ground for raised beds. : I used it to dig the holes into which I placed the supports for my : trellises. : I've looked at the Honda, it looks good for a small tiller, but will : it turn over clay or just bounce on the surface? A small tiller can tackle clay but you have to time it right. If the clay is hard and baked dry or wet and sticky, the time is not right ;-) I found when working on hard-packed soil that scraping a little trench first helps the tiller 'bite' and get started with less bouncing around. -- Karen The Garden Gate http://garden-gate.prairienet.org ================================================== ================= "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." ^and cats -- Cicero ================================================== ================= On the Web since 1994 Forbes Best of Web 2002 |
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