The Plot.

Well, as you can see from the rest of my plot, I haven’t given much time to rotavating or getting too fine a tilth of soil. It’s not that I’m lazy, just that it is a lot of work to do with that and my garden at home. Yes, while it would be good to have a good fine soil, it is not always necessary. Also it kills worms down to a good depth and worms are good for the soil.

In an ideal world I would give it a double dig every five years, but the soil is good and I add manure, compost, hops, etc., so I don’t need to. I also leave different areas fallow year on year and follow the rules of crop rotation.

I didn’t rotavate last year and everything was fine. However, as summer has taken over spring and there has been little rain, if I didn’t get some of the soil turned over, it would be nigh on impossible later on.

So, I bribed someone with beer to do it for me.

As you can see, they did a good job. It will really help me to plant things easily as and when I need to.