Posted by occam on October 5, 2007, 2:57 am
We are thinking of buying a tiller for our neglected garden, both for
current "garden beds" and to make new ones by cultivating the soil
(now a collection of beatuful weeds on a very uneven ground), then
just keep tilling until the weeds are decreasing in density. Finally
mix in soil improvements etc. and then use shallow and/or narrow
tilling to help keep weeds down.
Last time I did it with spadework - lots of it, and the garden beds
masses of weeds shows I made a good job of preparing the soil. Now I
am older and lazier (and my back hurts more).
My brother (in Sweden) sells the Mantis tiller and he tells me that a
Mantis is what I should have. However, these are rather expensive
outside USA, including in Australia.
Therefore I would like some advice on
1) would a tiller be of great / some/ little help?
2) is a 4stroke engine to be preferred above a 2stroke one?
3) is a Mantis worth the extra money?
4) or, what tiller / type of tiller should I buy?
Posted by Jonno on October 5, 2007, 3:08 am
I believe the Honda ones are good too.
You could ask for a demo?
occam@internode.razoron.net wrote:
> We are thinking of buying a tiller for our neglected garden, both for
> current "garden beds" and to make new ones by cultivating the soil
> (now a collection of beautiful weeds on a very uneven ground), then
> just keep tilling until the weeds are decreasing in density. Finally
> mix in soil improvements etc. and then use shallow and/or narrow
> tilling to help keep weeds down.
>
> Last time I did it with spadework - lots of it, and the garden beds
> masses of weeds shows I made a good job of preparing the soil. Now I
> am older and lazier (and my back hurts more).
>
> My brother (in Sweden) sells the Mantis tiller and he tells me that a
> Mantis is what I should have. However, these are rather expensive
> outside USA, including in Australia.
>
> Therefore I would like some advice on
> 1) would a tiller be of great / some/ little help?
> 2) is a 4stroke engine to be preferred above a 2stroke one?
> 3) is a Mantis worth the extra money?
> 4) or, what tiller / type of tiller should I buy?
Posted by len garden on October 6, 2007, 3:25 pm
g'day,
most small tillers are little more than toys and only usefull where
the soil is already tilled they don't do a very good job if at all of
tilling virgin ground. the 7 or 8 hp hoinda model does a good job but
it is also expensive.
so why not consider raised bed gardening no tilling ever, come see how
we do ours on our site.
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> current "garden beds" and to make new ones by cultivating the soil
> (now a collection of beautiful weeds on a very uneven ground), then
> just keep tilling until the weeds are decreasing in density. Finally
> mix in soil improvements etc. and then use shallow and/or narrow
> tilling to help keep weeds down.
>
> Last time I did it with spadework - lots of it, and the garden beds
> masses of weeds shows I made a good job of preparing the soil. Now I
> am older and lazier (and my back hurts more).
>
> My brother (in Sweden) sells the Mantis tiller and he tells me that a
> Mantis is what I should have. However, these are rather expensive
> outside USA, including in Australia.
>
> Therefore I would like some advice on
> 1) would a tiller be of great / some/ little help?
> 2) is a 4stroke engine to be preferred above a 2stroke one?
> 3) is a Mantis worth the extra money?
> 4) or, what tiller / type of tiller should I buy?