Tillage(Preparation of Soil)

Tillage is the agriculture preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging , stringing and overturning.

Examples of human powered tilling methods using hand tools include: shoveling, picking, mattock work, hoeing, and raking.

Examples of draft-animals-powered or mechanized work include: ploughing (overturning with moldboards or chiseling with chisel shanks), rototilling, rolling with cultipackers or other rollers, harrowing, and cultivating with cultivators shanks (teeth).

Small-scale gardening and farming, for household food production or small business production, tends to use the smaller-scale methods, whereas medium- to large-scale farming tends to use the larger-scale methods.

Tillage that is deeper and more thorough is classified as primary, and tillage that is shallower and sometimes more selective of location is secondary.

Primary tillage such as ploughing tends to produce a rough surface finish, whereas secondary tillage tends to produce a smoother surface finish, such as that required to make a good seedbed for many crops.

Harrowing and rototilling often combine primary and secondary tillage into one operation. Source wiki. Happy gardening, Yours in the garden Farm2Markt.