Of course, if you blokes had been around when the Agricultural Research Station at Rothamsted published its report on the comparitive effects of digging, ploughing and rotovating on soil fertility you wouldn`t want to be using rotovators anyway. It was entirely as a result of that report that I gave up my 6hp Howard Gem and reverted initially to the spade and subsequently to the deep-bed no dig method
Well I own up to having rotavated 3 out of 12 new beds, and I also own up to wishing I hadn't rotavated. The result cannot compare with proper hand digging, and I shall have to dig it all through anyway to incorporate mown clover and seaweed.
And I agree that once a bed has been properly dug to start with, it shouldn't need digging again unless it gets compacted for some reason.
