The only digging I do is to excavate the runner bean trench every year to add organic material, and when planting (and harvesting) potatoes. No raised beds here, so I sometimes have to fork over an area I need for growing which got trampled on the previous year.
Absolutely nothing to be gained by routinely turning over sandy soil like mine - it's the same all the way down!
Not many farmyards here in Sheffield
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so no ready and plentiful source of manure, just limited supplies of home made compost which is targeted at the growing areas which need it most.
I believe I'm in the 'Dig as little as you can possibly get away with' camp!
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