Gardening > Helpful HintsMarch 24, 2005

Cleaning Tiller Tines

This year we decided to have a garden of our own. So my husband bought a new toy, a tiller. The problem is cleaning the tines when he's finished. I suggested he get a bathroom brush or dish brush at the dollar store and use it to scrub off most of the dirt before he uses the hose to clean it. This worked so well and also saved him time and water. It also saved his back from having to bend over so much.

By Phyllis

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03/25/2005

Was he tilling the garden just after a rain? Do you have "gumbo" for soil? A lot of clay in your soil will make the soil stick to EVERYTHING. Or is this just a "new toy" and it is to be clean before it is now to be stored?

We have a sandier soil and I have never had to clean any soil off the tines of my tiller before I store it. But then I do spray down the tiller with the garden hose after I leave the garden with the portulaca and before I go to till the second garden that does not yet have portulaca.

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03/25/2005

Good idea for after the fact, but maybe before your hubby starts tilling, spray some PAM or some WD 40 on the tines so the soil doesn't stick so badly in the first place. BTW, what kind of tiller did he buy?

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