Hi Dale, I have an old furrower my grandfather gave me. It looks a lot like a current model Glaser Wheel hoe, which I also have. I imagine your grandparents laid out the garden with string between two stakes and used a wheel hoe to make straight furrows. With practice, you could get the trenches to slightly slope in order to water the garden with them. That, or they were deep enough and they used enough water that it didn't matter if they were of an uneven depth.

Robinator, A lot of tillers have commercially available furrower blades. Here is a list of Accessories for Maxim Tillers, which includes furrowers. I have one of these Merry Tiller furrowers for my Merry Tiller. It might be possible to adapt a furrower for another tiller for use on your TroyBilt Pony. MM

OK. I'm gonna show my ignorance here.... So, what you're saying is the hills are actually at normal ground level? So, you basically till your whole garden, then come back and cut ditches (furrows?) at some distance apart, which establishes the width of the hills? What happens to the material that's removed to create the ditch (furrow). I was of the impression that I would till my garden, then go back over it with the hiller attachment (only), leave one wing off, then the tiller would kind of throw soil up in a mound beside the tiller. Then I would make a pass in the opposite direction, some distance away and the tiller would throw soil towards the other side of the hill establishing the overall width of the hill? What am I misssing?

Tree, I am going to plant seeds also. I use the fact sheet listed below(Dawn linked). I think it is advice that is hard to beat. I don't measure my furrow, but it will look about 2" deep counting the ridge on each side from the hoe. I also don't use peat, I just never have it on hand. I will cover with potting soil if I have it. I think the most important thing to do is water every day, maybe twice a day if really hot and dry. I use a water can and try to only water the furrow itself. If the rest of the bed stays dry you wont have as many weeds sprouting. I apply about a gal. of water per 10 or 12 ft. of row. The amount of water you need will vary with the type of soil you have. Larry