Bob Crewe is an expert on garden tillers, but when he needed one at his suburban Chicago home, he rented it. That's about to change. "This might be the season when I finally pick one up," said Crewe, ...

A tiller can save an incredible amount of time and labor spent on soil preparation. But these machines are costly and may not be used frequently enough to warrant an outright purchase. If you have ...

For any garden too big to manually loosen the soil with a digging fork – which, unless you relish hours and hours of back-breaking work, means any garden consisting of more than a couple four-by-eight ...