hand tiller

Manual garden tool

A hand tiller is a manual gardening tool for breaking up and aerating soil, typically featuring a set of curved tines or rotating blades attached to a handle.

Unlike motorized tillers, it requires physical effort to push or pull through the earth: I used a hand tiller to loosen the soil in the raised beds.

The term also applies to small, handheld cultivators for weeding between plants.

Related

turning soil · fork · digging · claw · aerator · weeding · weed control · loosen · prongs · dirt · compost · rows · furrow · planting · manual · grip · rake · hoe

Opposites
power source

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Motorized soil cultivation machine

rototiller · cultivator

scale of operation

hand tillertractor

Agricultural pulling vehicle

plow · farm equipment · agricultural machinery · combine harvester · rotavator

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G