Tilling can prepare the ground for grass and other plants, as well as aerate it so that nutrients can get deep into the soil.

When I got serious about growing vegetables 30 years ago in Spokane, it wasn't hard to convince myself I needed a rototiller. The size of my garden (about a quarter-acre surrounded by wheat and ...

Bob Crewe is an expert on garden tillers, but when he needed one at his suburban Chicago home, he rented it. That's about to change. "This might be the season when I finally pick one up," said Crewe, ...

Merry Tiller's mid-tine design places engine weight directly over the tines for greater digging capacity and features extra-strong tie bars, handles and frame rails, heavy-duty transmissions ...

For any garden too big to manually loosen the soil with a digging fork – which, unless you relish hours and hours of back-breaking work, means any garden consisting of more than a couple four-by-eight ...