If your home vegetable garden or allotment is that bit too big to manage with a spade alone, then a powerful front-tine tiller like this one from Rally will prove a fantastic investment. Its high-performance Briggs & Stratton engine powers a series of four 30cm-diameter tines that will turn over and break-up soil either for planting; or for aeration and weeding purposes. The tines have a maximum working-width of 60.5cm, which can be reduced if you need to work between rows of tightly spaced plants (the digging-depth is also adjustable). The Rally FYX850 Tiller/Garden Cultivator features a reverse-gear in addition to the usual forward-gear, so it’s particularly easy to control and manoeuvre. Transport-wheels mounted to the rear of the machine make it simple to shift the tiller from place to place.
The Lazer LZ5043 is a heavy-duty rear-tine tiller that’s suitable for more challenging rotavating tasks on smallholdings and allotments. Key to its superior tilling-performance is its high-powered Briggs & Stratton four-stroke engine and high-torque gearing; a combination that enables the counter-rotating tines to break effortlessly through even clay-heavy or sun-baked soils, before turning it over and breaking it up ready for seeding or planting. The tines give a working-width of 43cm – compact enough to allow you to work between crop-rows without harming the existing plants. The Lazer LZ5043 Rotavator Tiller has a two-speed drive (one forward; one reverse), so it’s highly manoeuvrable. A seven-stage adjustable working-depth further enhances flexibility-of-use. This model also features a height-adjustable handlebar for optimum user-comfort.