Usage examples (37)

• Much of what we do in gardens, such as tilling, and using pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers, is harmful to the long term health of the soil.
• There are several initiatives -- such as tilling the soil with animals, deep-soil tilling, and using some fuel for irrigation purposes -- which are being implemented.
• Of the soil, .. but of the sweat in tilling it, –
• What this means is that the earthworms, protozoa, ants and other decomposers that are actively 'tilling' the soil are not there to do so.