Approx a year ago I removed a fair sized pine tree (about roof height)
from the front garden.

Is it worth rotavating the remaining soil in the hope of reclaiming the
area as a flower bed? The 'soil' is chalk with a layer of clay above.
It's fairly disturbed where I extracted the tree roots but solid
around the undistured areas.

I have at least one full compost bin whose contents I could incorporate
into the bed.

The DIY slant is the use of a powered labour saving tool as a preference
to back breaking digging.

TIA

Richard

Richard wrote:
Approx a year ago I removed a fair sized pine tree (about roof height)
from the front garden.

Is it worth rotavating the remaining soil in the hope of reclaiming the
area as a flower bed? The 'soil' is chalk with a layer of clay above.
It's fairly disturbed where I extracted the tree roots but solid around
the undistured areas.

I have at least one full compost bin whose contents I could incorporate
into the bed.

The DIY slant is the use of a powered labour saving tool as a preference
to back breaking digging.


Rotovators are VERY phyiiscal, but they do do the job of breaking up
compacted soil and distrbuting organic and other materails well.

TIA

Richard