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A possible good way of digging?

(As long as the soil is light enough.)

Push spade fully into earth.
Push it forward, letting topsoil fall into the space created behind the
spade.
Repeat.

This assumes the ground is not weedy.
It keeps the micro-organisms at the appropriate levels.
It deepens the fertility of the soil.

Silly or sensible?
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Chris

I love the way you say "letting topsoil fall into the space created behind
the spade". In my garden if you put a spade in you have trouble getting it
out again. :-)

My wife has been reading up about no-dig gardening. It involves piling more
compost on the top each year and letting the worms do the digging. Seemed to
work this year :-)



That's what we have been doing here for the last 20 years, never dig the
garden, even the veg beds remain undug. admittedly our soil is very light
but the constant mulching has improved things no end.

Question for the OP, Have you actually tried this? I suspect the soil
will just stay put.
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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea