BLACK+DECKER 20V MAX* Tiller (LGC120)

The B&D cordless tiller did the job. Battery ability. You need to buy a fast charger BDCAC202B 2 amp charger. with at least two of the smaller 20 volt lithium. The charger that is supplied with the tiller takes far to long to charge. The two batteries, one being charged and other working turn over for me any of my flower beds. Better yet get yourself the big battery. I have found that using that battery I can use the tiller for several hours and not run out of juice. No matter I have three batteries. How does it work. It is not overly heavy. I found the tiller works best with working on the edges of untilled ground with a upward tilting of the rotor blades and just a little push forward on the handle. You soon develop an efficient rocking kind of action. Work it as hard as you want, the slip clutch will tell you when to back off a little. You have no problem going down 6 inches. The rotor will stop with the action of a slip clutch if the work is too difficult, or if stones jam the rotor. It works best on small weeds in early spring, and does a great job of digging out quake grass. These are thrown up on the ground and can be simply raked of the soil with a bent tine fork. I used to do all this kind of work with a shovel. Now one application of the tiller, and the soil becomes nice an loose so that I can follow with a hoe to keep the soil friable. You will find a Preen kind of weed preventer applied after tilling, , or grass buster first to kill grasses in a bed, is a marvel of efficiency. This tool is so easily handled that you can manage the edges of your flower garden nicely. You can work in an around large mature flowers, for a fast buzz through on a continuous basis to keep the soil in your garden in good shape. . I am happy this is work horse tool, and a back saver. It has all the power you need. It is suited very well for flower beds, and for garden use. Go ahead buy it and try it. You have a 3 year warrantee.

This is a handy item for cultivating between plants or in other tight spots. It lacks the power to get through hard soil, but can easily handle cultivating in tilled soil or a raised bed. The back and forth motion of the tines does an excellent job for general cultivating or for when top dressing with fertilizers. The build quality is better than I expected. It's mostly plastic, but has a good, solid feel to it. The tines are sturdy and, so far, have had no problems dealing with the occasional rock. Assembly is straightforward, although fitting the pins to hold the tines is a bit fussy. Be sure to wear gloves (the tines are sharp) and use a pair of pliers, and they will get seated properly. If you have Porter Cable 20v batteries, they can easily be modified to fit this. All you need to do is cut a slot near the groove where the battery slides into the tool. It's a two minute operation with a Dremel, and the added slot does not cause any problems using the Porter Cable battery with a Porter Cable tool or charger. There are videos on how to do it, but all you really need to do is look at the two batteries side by side, and it's apparent where the slot needs to be cut. So far it's been a champ -- five stars.

I suspect this cordless battery-powered cultivator will be just the thing for working in raised beds, small garden spaces, and other locations where a regular tiller would be too bulky to be of service. Unfortunately, though, I've not been able to try it out yet since I'm still recovering from surgery to repair a perforated bowel. More about that later. Assembling the cultivator was a breeze -- that is until I arrived at the final step of attaching the tines. Looks easy, I thought. All I've got to do is to insert two cotter pins to secure the tines. Then, once the battery is charged, I'll be good to go. Great! I was, however, somewhat surprised to find this last step in the assembly process more challenging than I'd anticipated. A whole lot more challenging. "How challenging?" you want to know. How about more challenging than running a daylight marathon through the trackless wastes of the Sahara Desert without even a teaspoon of water? Or, if that doesn't get the point across, more challenging than attempting to eat Chichester Cathedral without benefit of teeth or dentures, not to mention salt or pepper to make all that stonework more palatable. Or, you can try this one on for size. Inserting the cotter pins was more challenging than an expedition into each nook and cranny of an ever-expanding universe to search for missing socks teleported from your dryer into an another dimension of the space-time continuum. Ha! You think I exaggerate. Well, let me tell you, I know a thing or two about cotter pins and their function. The fault, however was not with the cotter pins that came packaged with the cultivator. They were perfectly nice cotter pins -- pleasant chaps who would make good dining companions at the next five-star restaurant you eat at. Down-to-earth guys you could hoist a few brewskis with before dropping by the local bowling alley to bounce bowling balls off one another's heads. No, the fault was with the tines themselves -- the business end of the cultivator. The space between the tines was so minuscule I was unable to manipulate the cotter pins without risk of grave injury. The tines were as small and cramped as the glove compartment I sleep in when my wife is so mad at me she declares even the couch off-limits. Sharp projections ran along the sides of each tine. This was ostensibly for the purpose of loosening soil and uprooting weeds. At least I think that's what they were for. Much to my chagrin, I discovered they were also highly efficient at severing fingers that over the years I've grown rather fond of -- fingers that up until then I'd assumed were attached to me as well. Back in the days of the Spanish Inquisition, the tines could have been put to good use by those charged with the task of flailing the skin off heretics. During WWII they would have made the perfect implement for desperate, defeated Japanese soldiers resolved to do away with themselves for the emperor's glory. Let me make my story short. It took no more than ten minutes to complete all but the last step of the assembly process. Like I said, a breeze, right? Not so. Two-and-a-half hours, three severed fingers, multiple lacerations, and one bowel perforation later -- not to mention a voluminous expenditure of colorful language that only my sainted mother could have topped -- I finally got the second cotter pin inserted and promptly collapsed on the floor. Whether my swoon was caused by exhaustion or loss of blood, I have no idea. My recollection of the event is somewhat hazy. Around my unconscious, quivering body, I'm told, were all the tools I'd used in my attempt to insert the pins. Pliers, wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, a block and tackle, two chainsaws, a pile-driver borrowed from my neighbor the widow McGillicutty, a tube of Chapstick, a battering ram, a jack-hammer, several sticks of dynamite, a bulldozer, a toothbrush, a spool of dental floss, and for some reason a box of Arm & Hammer baking soda, all had to be shoved aside so the EMS techs could load me onto the stretcher to take me to the hospital. I'm pleased to say that surgery was successful. It looks like all but one of the three fingers I inadvertently removed have been successfully reattached. Now that the post-surgical staph infection is clearing up, the incision made to repair the perforated bowel I suffered while putting that damn machine together is healing nicely. Six weeks after assembling the cultivator, I'm looking forward to being discharged sometime next week. And once I return home, you wanna know the first thing I'm going to do? I'm going to take the flawlessly-assembled Black and Decker LGC120 20-Volt Lithium Ion Cordless Garden Cultivator out for a spin and put it through its paces. I'm confident it will perform nicely at the task for which I bought it. If it doesn't, I'll return it to Amazon for a full refund. And if Black and Decker doesn't cough up some money to help out with the six-figure medical expenses that I've accumulated so far, I'll be contacting an attorney pronto.

I had a flower bed approximately 8’x12’ that since last season had become grown over with clover/small weeds/grass (about 2-3” in height). I also had existing plants growing so I couldn’t just rototill the whole thing. I wanted to churn up the weeds/grass and also till the soil to plant some annuals. My soil is rather thick clay. This tiller was perfect, the first pass it grabbed up a lot of the weeds/ground cover- I would have to stop and clean out the tongs every couple feet but I expected this due to the amount of weeds and clay soil. It only took me a couple seconds to pull out the weeds then go on. After I got the layer of weeds off, I was able to go slower and press deeper into the soil to churn it up and get it ready for planting. The tiller was pretty easy to maneuver around existing plants/fence. As you can see in the last photo I was able to get quite close to the daylily in the top of the frame. This is more a tiller than a weeder but it saved me hours of backbreaking work pulling out weeds and grass by hand. It also made easy work of prepping my thick wet clay soil for planting. I found it worked best to press lightly on the first pass and focus on getting up the weeds and removing them from the tongs. I then made a second pass pressing deeper and going slowly to churn up the soil for planting. I was very pleased with the maneuvering ability and I never felt like it was going to go out of control even when I got a part of the wire fence caught up (totally my fault- I just released the trigger and it shut off instantly without damaging the tiller or fence). I am very pleased with this tiller- it was perfect for my flower beds and I can see it being useful in my larger garden when I just want to plant a small area and don’t want to get the big rototiller out. It also is useful for going along the edges of gardens to get stray grass and weeds. I was surprised that the tiller seemed to excel at getting larger weeds- it pulled them up by the roots and while I had to pull them off the tongs it wasn’t a big issue. I highly recommend this for the home gardener, especially if you’re like me and a bit intimidated of using a larger gas powered rototiller but hate prepping your garden by hand. This tiller didn’t get heavy or hurt my back either and I’m not an especially strong person. I got about 30 mins of battery life off 2 hours charging (I got impatient and didn’t wait for it to fully charge) so I imagine a full charge would be plenty for an average flower garden.

Watched a few videos of people using this little hand held cultivator and seen how much fun they were having with it I just had to try it out in my garden. When I received my package I immediately put it together and put the battery on the charger for a few days before I put it to use. Now I have 7 garden rows that are 30 feet long and 3 feet wide with loose clay soil. My plan was to get the grass out of my rows with this little cultivator. Started off this thing was working great and doing exactly what it was intended to do and did a fine job getting the little grass that had started growing in my garden. After finishing my first row and started on my second row I got about 4 or 5 feet of the second row done before the battery completely died on me! So, I go put the battery back on the charger and charged it another 8 hours and in the mean time I go help the wife trim our holly bushes and other yard work. Now it late evening and the battery is back to a full charge so I put it back to work getting the grass out my garden. This time it made it a full two rows before the battery completely died on me again. Now I put it back in the shed and breakout my trusty hoe and finished up getting the grass out before the storm that's going to hit us on Monday or Tuesday. Great tool, battery life sucks!!!

This is my 3rd summer using the B&B tiller. I bought it because of the good reviews and I wasn't impressed with the more expensive rotary tined tillers. It is one of my most useful tools. I am suprised at the power it has with only a 20v. battery. I use the tiller for a reasonable time without recharging. I use it for planting flowers and clearing new planting area. The tiller will dig a nice hole, but not very deep. I clean out the newly tined dirt and till again. This is usually deep enough for most plants. If the tiller hits a root or rock, the tiller will "strip a gear" making a horrible plastic sound. However, this has never seemed to harm the machine. After the tilling you have lots of loose soil to pack around roots unlike planting with a shovel. A word of warning! My soil is a Sandy loam soil. Just right for the tiller. I can't say how the tiller would do in a hard clay soil. The tiller does a decent job on weeds and sod. It doesn't turn the material under like a like a large tiller, but looses up the soil enough that you can easely pull them out. Remember the tiller does all of this in a Sandy loam soil. I should also mention that this tiller is for smaller areas. I don't believe it was ever meant for a large garden. It is light enough that even my 7 yr. grandson has used it a few times to make himself a dirtpile. (with supervision of course) May 1919. Starting my 7th year using my B & D tiller and it works like new. I now live where there is heavy clay soil. Where tilled last year, it easily tills. Starting new beds with heavy sod a bit harder. I shove a spade in and lift up, not turning over. Then run the tiller and pull loose grass and violets loose. I have no trouble using it and I am 80 yr. old man.

Item arrive in 2 days as expected. Unpacked the cultivator and charged the battery. It showed a fast blinking red light indicating it was defective. After spending an hour online chat with Amazon they said I had to contact the seller (Black and Decker) for support. It took hours to find a phone number to call. Black and Decker required a receipt for purchase (screen shot of Amazon order) and the date code off the battery. The battery was manufactured in 2021. Meaning this cultivator has been sitting in a warehouse for 5 years. Black and Decker accused me of trying to swap an old battery outside of the 2 year warranty. After escalation they agreed to replace it. Now I have to wait 2 more weeks for it to arrive. I will never buy a black and decker product again. Amazon needs better quality control.

I love working in the yard and have bought several different hand powered hoes, garden weasels, rake or what not to help turn the soil in the flowerbeds. I buy commercial quality lawn and garden equipment and do not like cheaply made stuff. My back has seen better days and physical work makes my lower back ache and the pain can be severe at times. I saw this cultivator accidentally while looking for seed on Amazon, liked the idea and thought I'd try it. The blades do not actually spin in circles but instead twist back and forth. I am amazed how well it works. It is very comfortable and easy to hold while it's working. I let the tool do the work and can do all my flowerbeds without tearing up my back. It tears and uproots weeds and grass the beds too. The battery lasts a fair amount of time. I have Black and Decker's 20 volt leaf blower as well and it takes the same battery and uses the same charger. So now I have two batteries I can use on either tool. I am really pleased with this and how well it works. It is my new favorite tool for sure.

I am so pleased with this unit, I just purchased a second. I gotta say, I was so pleased after 11 years that it was still available. Now in 2026 it appears that there are plenty of other little handheld tillers. Will I try another brand. Hard NO. Surprisingly, this year we just bought a few more of Black and decker yard products - lopper and shears and today I ordered the B and D weed whacker. Why switch when they are super reliable and the batteries are great! We have a large acreage and this old tiller stood up to years of abuse. Full disclosure - old tiller often got left outside in scorching sun which eventually faded the housing which started to crack. I have not been nice to the first one. lol every year I thought it’s gonna crap out. It’s a Black and Decker cordless tiller, not overly expensive etc. I thought it would last a couple seasons tops. I was dead wrong on this. Holy cow. Hauled out the 11 years old unit this year and it finally cracked on the brittle plastic housing. If you are a woman, this is your dream tool for weeding flower beds, light tilling of garden for weed maintenance, spring flower beds clean up and till. It’s awesomeness for me. After 11 years hubby tried it only because he got the package first and put it together. He was the one who said holy moly this little thing is amazing. I saved the box for you so you can see the other garden tools available 😂🤣 so….now I have the shears, lopper and the weed whacker will arrive soon. I will review these tools as well! I’ll keep you posted on the

This thing works great in the garden

I have a bad back and loved to garden, so I am investing in tools that do some of the heavy labour to save myself the agony! This tool is good for light soil aeration but not for hard clay conditions. The battery is interchangeable with other BD 20V tools which is great if you use this a lot as an extra battery is almost as much as the tools! It was reasonably easy to put together, my only real complaint is that the insertion of the pins on the rotary heads at the bottom was difficult to do.

Item delivered today but the battery would not charge. I contacted Black & Decker and was told that because I purchased from Amazon I would have to contact Amazon. Amazon's solution was a return - this is not a small item. This is ridiculous! All I need is a battery replacement. If I wait until the return option has expired I believe Black & Decker will replace the battery. But I would like to try the tool while the return is still possible. Somebody needs to give their head a shake. I am too frustrated this evening - will contact Black & Decker for another try tomorrow. Black & Decker agreed to replace the battery.

This cultivator is a terrific little tool to use in flower beds for preparing, seeding, weeding and aerating. The small head does a great job of getting between existing plants without damaging stems and foliage, and the tines are the perfect length for turning over the top soil without damaging existing roots. I use it all the time in my perennials beds. The 20 volt battery provides lots of power and decent life, although a second battery may be needed if working larger areas. Happily, the lithium-ion battery pack is interchangeable with a variety of other Black & Decker tools, and I have since bought most of them, including chain saw, pole saw, hedge trimmer and string trimmer/edger. A great family of tools!