digitS'
Garden Master
Similar techniques: I didn't start the carrots in the hoop house using egg cartons. However, he prepares the bed for planting with a spading fork and rake. I do the same and was doing that in the distant garden when it was 30' by 200' and larger.
The shovel was never given up but the spading fork is preferred for loosening the soil. Often, I will use a 4-prong, long-handled cultivator to break up clods. Sometimes, that's enough for leveling a bed but usually the rake follows the cultivator. A rototiller has never been my best choice but I used it quite a lot during the last few years with that garden. The tractor guy was only an Autumn visitor.
I like the egg carton idea and it obviously works
.Steve
