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What size piece of land are you rotivating and what are your reasons for doing so?
In my experience you will have to remove turf first which can be done with a turf cutter if you have a hire shop local. Which brings me to my next recommendation which is to hire the biggest, heaviest, petrol rotivator of doom you can afford and do the job once. I don’t think it’s great for soil health to continually ‘aerate’ it so I wouldn’t purchase the tool for repeated use but I understand needing to get some goodness into clay soil.
When I hired a mini digger and fully rearranged our garden I needed to do this on a 10x30M. -
Also, won’t the milk thistle get your bedsheets on the washing line?!
Our favourite sheets got ruined last year when they brushed over some very happy daisies which I thought were at a safe distance but covered in aphid. Turns out aphid don’t just stain your fingers.
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I've super heavy clay soil, are there any hand rotivators that work or should I just save up for a good electric one?
Of course digging it out with the trenching hoe works too but it's hard and slow work...
(And I'm not 20 anymore....) :)