Tilling advice

[Baby Grand]

What I do is I first till all around the boarder then do the middle running east & west. As I am going east and west, at the end of my run, I stop in the middle of the boarder pass. So the barrel shaped hole is in the center and has soft dirt on all 4 sides of it. Then my last pass north and south to cover the holes the tiller's shoes have soft dirt to sink into as the center of the tiller passes over the hole.

This generally covers the hole completely AND keeps all the dirt in the garden not in the yard.

I started doing this early this spring while turning in our cover crop. It works great. As long as the tractor stays level & the tires stay out of the hole it seems to flatten everything out nicely. You get just one "barrel hole" at the end of that last pass and that just takes a minute to fill in with an iron rake.