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- From: "Charlotte Dion" <cadion@verizon.net>
- To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?
- Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:55:58 -0400
You might want to look at broadforks, aka u-bar tillers. We've convinced our community gardeners to give up the roto-tilling by having this tool available. We have a sandy/loamy soil and the broadfork requires a whole lot less human energy input than shovel or hand fork.
http://www.newedengarden.org/2010/03/19/to-till-or-not-to-till-revisited/
Your annual rye can be knocked down or mowed down to act as a mulch layer.
Digging in Spring is a happy thing!
-Charlotte
On 4/3/2010 8:51 AM, Marjory wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am about to start a good sized plot for a three sisters garden - about
60'x40'. The soil is a loose sand with a bit of loam. It currently has
a good cover of annual rye grass. As my husband runs off to find a
motorized tiller to prepare the ground I am wondering if there is a low
tech version of a tool that could do the job? I've heard about the
Glazer wheel hoe being able to do some light cultivation with a plow
attachment. I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this, or
any suggestions? what tools would work to cultivate a plot this size?
I could do it with a shovel... but that would take a bit longer than I
am hoping to get it done in.
Thanks,
Marjory
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[permaculture] manual tools for tilling?,
Marjory, 04/03/2010
- Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?, Sean Albiston, 04/03/2010
- Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 04/03/2010
- Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 04/04/2010
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Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?,
Stephen Sherman, 04/05/2010
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Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?,
Charlotte Dion, 04/05/2010
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Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?,
Tripp Tibbetts, 04/08/2010
- Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 04/09/2010
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Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?,
Tripp Tibbetts, 04/08/2010
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Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?,
Charlotte Dion, 04/05/2010
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?, jenny Nazak, 04/06/2010
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