Making Terraces In 3 To 5 Passes; Tilling Across Slopes Without Terraces; Terraces Formed By Tilling On A Slope Are About Three Feet Wide - Troy-Bilt Horse Owner's Manual

(Photo 5/16) Terraces formed by tilling on a .
slope are about three feet wide.
TILLING ACROSS SLOPES WITHOUT
TERRACES
Tilling across the slope without terraces is
not the way we recommend, but it can be done
in the following manner. Begin at the top of
the slope and overlap half of each tilled path,
always keeping the uphill wheel in the soft,
newly tilled soil. Doing so will help you keep
the tiller more stable across a relatively steep
slope.
Before trying to till in this manner, or creat-
ing terraces across a slope, please think it over
carefully and see if it isn't possible to till vert-
ically up and down the slope.
TERRACING IN 3 PASSES
(Sketch 5/17) Creating a terrace in three passes.
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feet or more wide which would leave enough
room for cultivating with the tiller, digging to
this depth on a steep slope would likely mean
that you would be growing plants in subsoil
since the inner edges of the terrace would be
cut more deeply into the hill. Thus, the need to
hand-maintain narrower terraces across the
slope after the seedbed has been prepared with
a Troy-Bilt Tiller, makes it much more desir-
able to create a garden vertically up and down
a slope, if it is at all possible.
MAKING TERRACES IN 3 TO 5 PASSES
Here's how to go about making your terraces
across a hillside. Till across the inside edge of
the terrace and turn around, then, come back
and retill the same ground (because you can't
overlap on the first pass of each terrace). Then,
overlap one half a tiller's width (10 inches)
and go back in the other direction. When you
reach the end of the terrace, turn around and go
back, overlapping one half a tiller's width
again. Remember, leave the last 6 inches or
more untilled. See Photo 5/16, Sketch 5/17
and Photo 5/18.
(Photo 5/18) Use of a furrower attachment is
an ideal method of creating a deep furrow on
the inside portion of
a
terrace to speed up trans-
planting of young tomato or pepper plants and
potatoes.
A furrowing attachment on your Troy-Bilt
Tiller can be very useful to you in making ter-
races. The furrower can be quickly mounted
and removed at will. It creates a nice deep fur-
rowan the inside portion of the terrace and is
an excellent tool for planting and transplanting