Prepping the soil in vegetable plots or flower beds is a garden task that's easy to overlook ... that using mechanized equipment, such as cultivators and tillers, is less physically demanding.

A cultivator's job is to run its tines through soil ... as that's where you'll find the Ryobi 40V HP brushless 16-inch front tine tiller. This battery-powered beastie is intended to break ground ...

That's about to change. "This might be the season ... The advantages of owning or renting a garden tiller -- or its smaller cousin, a cultivator -- are many. Tillers and cultivators are useful ...

The knife roller is designed to minimise breakage risk, while the Crossbar’s aggressiveness is adjustable via hydraulic controls. The Cruiser XL tine cultivator operates at depths of 4cm to 15cm, with ...