StillSmart

No really. Sharing this 'cos I know a few of us are growers.

I cannot dig. Kills my back. Rotavator not much better.

I found this secondhand locally. Stunning. Just dug over 10x10 turf in about 30 mins didn't even break a sweat. Probably best tool ever.

https://youtu.be/zBChqCjZJxE

That looks good Mash

think I will get the wife one lol

A spade with handle bars, brilliant! Not.
But if it works for you then who am I to nay say?

I will concede that the olde styley spade may be due a facelift...

Robert.

I use one of these Ryobi Expand-it mini rotivators https://www.ryobitools.com/outdoor/products/details/cultivator-attachment

Fits on a small split shaft petrol strimmer. Low weight, easy to use and easily digs down a few inches. When I was preparing the garden from long term pasture I mowed it first, stripped off 2 inches with a hired turf cutter, and then dug it with this. The turf I just stacked grass down in a pile, left it for two years and then put it back into the garden as rotted down top soil.

Easydrinker wrote:A spade with handle bars, brilliant! Not.
But if it works for you then who am I to nay say?

I will concede that the olde styley spade may be due a facelift...

Robert.

You are looking at the wrong end the magic is further down.

Seriously they make the job soooo easy.

Squint wrote:That looks good Mash

think I will get the wife one lol

Joking aside. That's how I first saw them.
When I was a kid the wife next to us dug 1/4 acre with one every year. Tiny dot of a woman.


Your wife would be so pleased.