wm@tekchips.UUCP (Wm Leler) (01/30/84)
One thing you potential roto-tiller owners might look into is a garden tool called a U-bar. It is a bar with tines sticking down and two long handles sticking up. You use it by sticking the tines into the ground, jumping on the bar if the soil is hard to drive the thing all the way into the ground, and then pulling back on the two handles. It is much easier to use than a shovel or whatever, mainly because of the extra leverage and because you use it standing up (i.e., with your back straight, not hunched over). It may not be as easy as a roto-tiller, but it's cheaper and gives you exercise. People I know use it to double dig hard Silicon Valley clay soil (ever try to dig in silicon? :-) Also for a catalog of seed companies and their catalogs, try "The Seed Finder". You can get both of these things from "Bountiful Gardens" 5798 Ridgewood Rd., Willits, CA 95490. Wm Leler