Since getting this allotment one of the more tedious jobs has been digging over the plot each year. It’s like painting the Forth Bridge – by the time I get to the end, the start is overgrown.
I’ve always wanted a rotavator but they’ve either been too expensive, bulky to store, or built around crappy two stroke engines that don’t always start.
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Not any more! While browsing Amazon I came across this. It’s a battery powered tiller / rotavator. It’s light, easy to carry and the batteries actually last a decent amount of time.
I gave it a good test today. My plot is overgrown with lots of grass and weed, but it managed to turn this…
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Into this…
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With minimal effort from me. Normally this would have taken several hours spread over two days. I’m tall, the ground is far away, I hate digging.
Then it managed to also do this…
It doesn’t like long grass, so I need to mow or strim that first, but that’s not much effort either.