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Why rotovate ???

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ACE:
I expect just as many worms get maimed or eaten when you are plodding through with your spade and pet robins. I rotovate large areas now after 50 years of hand digging. Run through the plot first with a fork to dig out any robust weeds, not many as I keep them down with regular maintenance. Then blast though with the machine, mashing any small weeds as I go. I have not noticed any downturn in the worm population.  This is on a bed that is cultivated, I would not use  a rotovator to clear a new plot, Asian hoe or mattock and a heavy fork are what's needed for that job.

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