This video briefly explains how troybilt hiller furrower attachments like this ebay.us/kGJEWE can be used with a Troybilt rototiller to form raised beds, including the 30 inch raised beds that are common in small market gardens. I used this raised bed formation method as a cheaper alternative to using a BCS tiller or rotary plow. It doesn't conserve soil structure quite the same way, but it quickly creates descent raised beds with minimal rake down required. Using this potato hilling raised bed strategy is certainly faster than digging raised beds by hand. I can do a 1,000 sq ft garden worth of raised beds in a couple hours using this particular raised bed technique and my troybilt pony tiller.
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in this video i'll be showing you how to use the troy built pony tiller and a potato hilling attachment to form nice raised beds. This works similar to what you may have seen with Jean-Martin Fortier and The Market Gardener with the rotary plow, but instead of spending thousands of dollars for a BCS tiller you can just pick up a used Troybilt pony tiller and along with one of these [ Hiller Furrower } attachments
Underneath your troy-bilt tiller there is going to be a hole for attaching [the furrower/hiller] and that's actually where this [bolt] here is going to go then you simply just put a nut through it either the one that came with it or if you got something old just go to the hardware store and get the right size [of nut and bolt] so we'll do that now and I'll show you how [ the tiller attachment ] looks like after we have the hilling attachment hooked to the tiller. That's what [ the hiller furrower attachment ] looks like hooked up. I highly recommend using a nylock nut so [ the tiller attachment ] doesn't rattle off while you're using it. Then you'll need two somethings to grab and turn it otherwise [ the nut ] will just spin in place as you're tightening it up on it there also on the plow attachment itself there are also adjustments for the wings so you can change the angle at which [the plow] is going and these [ plow wings ] are set to what I'm going to use it doesn't really matter and just experiment with it with how high you want your [ raised ] beds and you'll see for my [ raised beds ] rake down method anyways different different sizes of the [raised ] beds. I'm going to be making some standard looking beds. All right so then also helpful when you're working on it if you just change the tiller so that the guide bar is [protruding down ] picking [the tiller and the attachment ] up off the ground and then adjust [ the tine height ] down to what you want. I'll probably go so it's maybe a depth of four or five inches. All right and then next thing I'll show you is finished product and how I rake [the raised beds ] down. One thing i forgot to say is that the first year I [made raised garden beds ] , I used a string to mark off [the raised bed location and dimensions , but ] now I'm just going to eyeball it and shoot it straight, but if you wanted each [ garden ] bed to be exactly a certain width or whatnot then obviously mark it off using string and run a string line
After a first pass [with the tiller attachment ] this is what [the raised beds ] should look like. We'll make sure that the beds are what we want then we're going to run over [ the furrows ] again you can dab away we can uh make it uh greater depth by setting it down a little further or if you or if you want the paths wider flick the [hiller furrower ] wings at a lower angle from the ground so anyways we'll see what [ the garden bed ]looks like after the second pass and then we'll show how to flatten [the top of the raised garden beds ] down and make them look pretty and in this case because we just till this up for the first time in a long time obviously we want to tilt less as we go along then I will also show how I use the light deprivation tarps to get some weed pressure reduced. Okay here [ are the garden beds ] after a second pass [with the tiller attachment ].
You could make a third or a fourth [ pass ] if you wanted to but that's good enough for me. Now I'm going to rake the [raised garden beds so ] you can see it creates little hills here which is great if you're doing a single crop row but if you want to flatten those out i'm going to take a landscape rake here.
and i'm going to flatten [ the raised bed ] out . I happen to make my beds the width of my landscape rake so I can just drag it down the middle.
Okay when you've raked the tops [of the raised beds ] down it'll look like that so i'm going to actually get a trailer load full of organic dairy cow manure because we're gonna need some nitrogen for what we're planting here. I shouldn't say we need it, but it'll grow better and faster if we have a little extra nitrogen... Continued
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