No no-dig

[Unwashed]

Did my first bit of propper digging of the season where the new potatoes had been.  Ahhhh, lovely.  I just like digging, OK?

[slyfox-mal]

i know that feeling nothing better than digging i did my potato bed a couple of weeks ago and then sowed a green manure into it  (fenugreek) i will dig it all in again in about six weeks

[pigeonseed]

I just like digging, OK?

 

[electric landlady]

So do I! I'm going to pop some green manure where the spuds have been once I've got them all out....just for the sheer joy of digging it in again 

[lincsyokel2]

manual digging is a pitb and hard work. On the other hand, i dont put much by the no-dig system, its wasteeful on space.

SO i rotavate, power hoe, and strim.....anything that uses an engine............

[Cabagepicker]

Not sure I share the joy of digging, but have doen a few hours today!  If I dig manure in where my potatoes were, does that restrict what I can sow there next?  I am trying to work out a rotation of things and am unsure what'll be going there next? 

[Robert_Brenchley]

Digging's something to be avoided wherever possible, but I can't always get out of it!

[1066]

Hi cabbagepicker and welcome to A4A
aside from these diggers, I think if you are adding manure you would want to avoid planting carrots and parsnips, cos they'll go all forky and stuff. There is a good thread on rotation at the moment, well I say good, lots of us on it our confused, but the ones that know their onions have lots of sound advice. I'll go and find the link

1066

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,62561.0.html