Mantis Tiller
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- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:51:31 EDT
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In a message dated 9/10/2000 8:54:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
jandnbilson@salisbury.net writes:
<< I have been thinking about buying a Mantis for puttering about after we get
the initial beds built. Troy-bilt has a small tiller that sells for the
same price. Does anyone have any experience with either of these >>
I have a Mantis tiller that I love to death. Sweet Leonard got me one last
year after he watched me struggling with trying to incorporate organics into
our heavy clay. This is what it does best. When I work a bed, I first break
up the soil with a shovel... then fling on compost, peat moss, alfalfa
pellets and such...... I think of my Mantis as a soil Cuisinart - it's not
going to chop up an entire rutabaga - BUT, if you get the rutabaga into
manageable bits, it'll take it from there.
My beds are wonderfully mixed and the Mantis can get into the smallest spaces
without too much effort. And it's easy to start, and forgiving if you try to
do something you shouldn't..... like till up weed barrier or soaker hose (not
good).
Kathy Guest in East Aurora, NY
who just got back from a VERY successful Fall Garden Faire, and who had the
pleasure of Scott Kunst, Old House Gardens, as a houseguest in the bargain
