If you're planning to create flower beds or a garden, a cultivator or garden tiller is a great tool for the job. Learn about cultivators and tillers, and understand their capabilities so you can pick the right piece of equipment for your planting projects. ←Click

Acultivatoris a piece ofagricultural equipmentused for secondarytillage. One sense of the name refers to frames withteeth(also calledshanks) that pierce the soil as they are dragged through itlinearly. Another sense refers to machines that userotary motionof disks or teeth to accomplish a similar result. Therotary tilleris a principal example.←Click

Strip-till is the practice of tilling the row where the seed and/or fertilizer will be placed, keeping the residue between the rows undisturbed. Depending on the type of machine and the desired depth of fertilizer placement, the deepest part of the strip is between four and eight inches. Strips can be created in the fall after harvest or in the spring prior to planting. Some systems utilize both a deep fall strip tillage with a lighter spring “freshening” of the strip.←Click