You want a garden but you don't have a tiller to till the soil.

How to hand till a garden. Do you have a shovel? Start at one corner of the marked out area with your tiller. Nor do you want to wait three weeks on a rental list.

If you intend to plant a spring garden, then you must get the soil ready for tilling in the fall. Keep hand tilling in this fashion. To fill in the second ditch, use dirt from the ditch and place it over the soil.

Once you've completed the previous step, you have to continue hand tilling the soil. Next, dig a 10 inch (25 cm.) deep ditch along one edge of the space. Hand tilling may be accomplished using a shovel, a garden rake and.

Sweep the soil up into a pile about three feet wide and four feet long. This tool can be used to prepare the garden soil without a tiller. You can get either a long mattock or a shorter one.

Just till it slowly with these steps. Wife, kids and chickens all chipped in. If the soil is too hard, you can use a garden hoe or pitchfork to do this instead.

Use a hand cultivator for removing weeds from a garden. If you’re tilling a new garden you. In the same trench, dig up a shovelful of soil and turn it over in the same place.