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CiscoKidney07
Forum Leader
Username: Gregg
Post Number: 5461
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 12:45 pm: | 
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If you have a garden or two or one nice big garden, tilling is a good way to get out your frustration and burn lots of calories.
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Hostess Rise'
Board Administrator
Username: Rise
Post Number: 17381
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 05:07 pm: |
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Can you explain what tilling involves? I am glad that you see chores in a positive setting. 
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CiscoKidney07
Forum Leader
Username: Gregg
Post Number: 5462
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 09:18 pm: |
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A rototiller is gas powered. Once the first row has been tilled, the second and all rows after that have to be overlapped until the last row. Many times this will involve putting more pressure on one side than the other. This is why I have always considered it to be wrestling. Planting can also be a calorie burning exercise.
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Tamara
Member
Username: Heppygirl
Post Number: 84
Registered: 05-2011
| | Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 04:30 am: |
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My doctor has told me not to do gardening work after my transplant... So how is that possible than? ;)
Still not knowing what tilling is... What do you DO. With grass, with sand, with flowers? What?
Tamara
24y/o, from the Netherlands
Cystic Fibrosis, Dxed at birth
Bilateral lungtransplant, September 2010
http://muffinmeetsworld.blogspot.com
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CiscoKidney07
Forum Leader
Username: Gregg
Post Number: 5463
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 07:26 am: |
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Tamara, I guess at this point, I would say get someone to plant them for you. You could still design your garden to look the way that you want it to. If you do a little research, you will find that in garden design with flowers, unlike vegetable gardening, there are what you call hot colors (reds,oranges) and cool colors (greens and blues, when you can find them) and how to arrange them for maximum effect. Just a suggestion to help you get into it. Good luck!
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DAP1122
Forum Leader
Username: Dap1122
Post Number: 3345
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 07:30 pm: |
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Rototilling is a LOT of exercise, especially if you try to run the tiller over hard packed or clay soil. The tiller just might kick your rear end a time or two as those metal "tines" attempt to dig down into the dirt. The tines are the curved blades at the bottom.
I gave up this activity after my transplant. I now enjoy "low impact" container gardening. :-)
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