What is garden 'tilling'?

What is garden 'tilling'?

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Garden tilling is working the soil, and turning it over. It can be done mechanically, or manually and some of the benefits of tilling is that we want to work organic material into the soil. Organic matter breaks down a lot slower once it's in the soil and not exposed to the sun's rays. So if we till and we work amendment in we help improve the structure of the soil and we get that organic matter down into the soil where it won't break down as fast.