Bed Preparation

Video: Johnny's Tilther | The Eliot Coleman-designed bed-prep tool


Watch a demonstration on how to use The Tilther to perfect the tilth of planting beds that are already established.

Conceptualized and designed by Johnny's Tools Advisor Eliot Coleman and powered by a variable-speed electric drill, the Tilther's staggered, curved steel tines mix and prep the soil, incorporating amendments such as compost, rock powders, alfalfa meal, and greensand, while shredding any existing roots and refining tilth to prep the beds for direct seeding or transplanting.


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