rmully
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i have heard folks say to much use and you will wear those tillers out, and if you can find tines there not hardened and there expensive. I know your in the GA red clay, and i belive that it will work if you say it does. Ive looked and they seem to still bring 300-400 around here on the ones you find and with a set of tines upward of $200 in thinking that could get expensive esp if bearing or gears tear up. Bottom plows have been around a long time and are cheap. Yes i have to then do a couple passes with the disk to level and smooth it but this is for deer not my garden. And like i said my disk harrow just rides on top of the ground unless it has been broken recently. I need to try after some good rain not just the showers we have gotten befor i have messed with it i guess.
A tiller will make short work of your job ...tines are not expensive $10 ea and how many are you going to break?? Bottom plows will tear up the earth but on big clumps then you need to use some form of harrow after tillage. IMO tilling is the best way to go. Today I tiller a 20 X 100 food plot( this ground has not been touched for 50+ years NC red clay) added mushroom compost, 400 lbs of lime and 5 large bags of peat and on top of all this about 100 lbs of wood ash from a barn took down and burned. This soil is so smooth you could grow 12' carrots in it. I am getting ready for a fall/winter garden and want the soil right by fall.