The tool is designed to consistently cultivate soil to a depth of 1.5 inches, so its main purpose is loosening topsoil and prepping beds or bare areas of lawn for seed starting by mixing soil or added organic matter. The Garden Weasel comes with instructions and information about the tool’s limited lifetime warranty.

Can I use a garden weasel to aerate my lawn?

Tools to aerate your lawn The two tools that are most often used to aerate a lawn are a spike aerator and a plug aerator. A spike aerator is the most basic tool. It works by simply poking holes into your lawn using a fork, or any tool with a spiked end like the Garden Weasel Garden Claw.

What is a cultivator used for?

Cultivators should be used for mixing soil that’s already been broken up, such as when compost or fertilizer is added after tilling and before planting. Cultivators can also be used after planting to control weeds.

Do garden cultivators work?

A cultivator is primarily used to mix loose soil, while a garden tiller can break up hard pieces of ground. As such, a cultivator is unlikely to work if you are creating a new garden plot because its tines are not heavy-duty enough to loosen hard soil.

Do hand tillers work?

Both types of hand tillers can make it far easier to loosen the soil around grass or weed roots. This enables you to remove grass and weeds with ease. They also both break up the soil easily for planting or amending purposes. However, you need to pick the one which works best for your particular space.

Can a cultivator be used as an aerator?

Tip. You can use a tiller to aerate the soil, although routinely tilling your garden every year may not be a good idea. Tilling a garden or lawn to aerate it is best done only once, according to gardening experts.

What is a tiller good for?

What is a Tiller? Put simply, a garden tiller is designed to break up hard, compact soil into loose, broken-up dirt that can then be used for planting. Two different types of garden tillers are available: front-tine, or rear-tine. Here’s how they differ.

When should you use a lawn tiller?

If you are working on very compacted soil or removing weeds, rocks or turf on larger tracts of land (500-10,000 square feet), then a tiller is a better choice. These are heavy-duty machines that can tackle tougher terrain and bigger jobs with ease.

How do you use a tiller on hard ground?

Drive the rototiller slowly over the soil to allow the tines time to break through the soil’s crust at shorter intervals. Adjust the depth to 8 inches for the second pass and increase the speed slightly to shorten the tilling intervals and force the tines to cut through more soil.