A Hand Tiller - Keeping Gardeners Close To Nature
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Yard Butler Garden Twist & Tiller and V & B Mini Tiller
In this age of electronics, speed and innovation, you would think there are not many people left who actually do things with their bare hands, with hand tools and under their own power. However, genuine enthusiasts in the kitchen, garden or woodwork shop will still love the feel of their traditional hand tools, even if only as a supplement to their electric tools. In this respect, a keen gardener is much like a keen cook; they love the close contact with their materials.
Ask any true, traditional gardener, and they will surely tell you they just enjoy the feel of the soil, as well as the enjoyment of growing things, harvesting the crops, and see the flower displays that result from all their hard work. As much as they are prepared to use modern electric or gas garden equipment, such as a roto tiller, they still enjoy using hand tools, and this includes their favorite hand tiller.
There are various styles and designs of hand tillers, and your local hardware or garden store are likely to have at least one and probably more hand garden tillers. You will find a few, too, online at places like Amazon and Yahoo Shopping. There are two basic types, those which you have to get down on your knees to use, and those that you stand up and can use like you would a rake or traditional hoe. I suspect that many of those people who are seeking a hand held tiller are really looking for the “down on your knees” type, but both are appropriate, and are manual rather than electric or gas powered.
At Amazon the Yard Butler Garden Twist & Tiller has had some favorable reviews. This manual garden tiller is of the standing up type, and is a very simple implement that should cope with most of your small garden tilling. It sells for about $35. At Yahoo Shopping there are several mini tillers, such as the V & B Mini Tiller which you can buy for about $16. This has a combined tines and mattock head, with the mattock end being a useful addition to chop away at thick roots.
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