Gardening #4: Rototilling Time

This weekend Scott set to work on tuning up the rototiller I inherited from my grandfather so we could get the garden beds ready for planting.

This rototiller is probably 20 years old, but my "Fix it up Chappy" oiled and scrubbed and replaced fluids and belts. It runs like a champ now.

Fall leaves covered the garden all winter, and the manure added last year and compost added this year served to make some dark chocolaty-looking soil when tilled up:



Very gratifying.

Now, if I only had some goat manure to add to the mix...