This lightweight, homemade electric garden tiller is great for working leaves into garden beds. I assembled an electric rototiller using an old front-end rototiller that had a blown engine and a ...

Tillers come in a range of sizes and with various features, so we put 12 popular products through a series of tests to learn more about their ability to prepare and maintain landscape and garden beds.

To start with, there are three main categories of tillers: cultivators, front- or mid-tine and rear-tine. Cultivators are lightweight and easy to manipulate for light--duty work. “Usually cultivators ...