I speak of course, plowing quite deep (20 to 30 cm) with reversal of earth. An energetic chasm, by the way!
And this is one of the most remarkable mystifications: this true-plowing with turnaround is very recent!
See "Jethro Tull vs. Hortège Fight" bottom of page 57 on:
agriculture / gardening-more-than-bio-by-plant-live-without-fatigue-t13846-560.htmlUntil then, the beginning of the 18th century, it was the plow that was used. And which was only "scratching" the earth superficially ...
The worst, of course, are the tiller and the "strawberry" (the rotating machine, not the fruit). Who destroys worms ...
Regarding
"the followers of ecological agriculture, permaculture and" soft culture "methods, there are those who are fond of working the land., you will allow me, but that only commits me, to see a lot of bullshit in a lot of sagging, a lot of "beliefs", a lot of mimicry and very little "knowledge".
"Yes, but it works!" I am often retorted. To which I always respond that nature is tremendously resilient and forgives mountains of bullshit. The proof: conventional agriculture works by fire of God, if we look at the yields, the beautiful shape of the products (and if we close our eyes to everything else: damage, pollution, carbon footprint, residues, mudslides, erosion ...). So "it works" is not a sufficient argument.
To conclude: scratching with a tooth tool is of course, much less harmful.
But for me, it is useless.
Now it's cheaper than a ride at the fair. Or an hour in a gym ... So, as long as you have health, why not?
The real problem that this poses is that the ground must be bare: and that is the great stupidity. Bare ground has a natural tendency to cover up. So the "hoeing" is shooting yourself in the foot because it condemns you to hoe again ... And hoe again ... Because we go against nature (except in deserts - hot or cold - and some "toxic" spaces - salty for example), nature always covers all the space that is offered to it, to best capture the solar energy it receives. Any bare soil is therefore the least efficient, the most anti-natural system that exists.
But I leave you. Sorry for this joke. It's stronger than me. A kind of sadness and automatic reaction ...