Scratch the ground open with a strong hand cultivator before the bulbs are tucked in.

Scratch it in carefully with a hand cultivator.

Either work it in lightly with a hand cultivator or if rain is in the forecast, the natural soaking will wash the food down toward the roots.

Pulling some of them away from the root ball with a hand cultivator helps them grow into the surrounding soil and become established.

Turning the container upside down to find the plant roots encircling one another from lack of space, he took his hand cultivator and teased them apart.

A small hand cultivator can be used lightly to scratch the fertilizer into the root zone.

Dig a hole about a foot deep and half as wide, and scarify the sides with a garden fork or hand cultivator.

Next, I go over the whole root ball again, this time with a pronged hand cultivator or a stick, loosening soil and roots all over its surface.

Sometimes a good-quality adult-size trowel or hand cultivator is better.

Doheny realized they had stopped in a small stone hut piled on both sides with rusty gardening tools - hoes, rakes, shovels, trowels, hand cultivators.