Digging

[exile]

Sawdust is also good to add to make soil more acidic.

As for the turves you've lifted - if you have any energy left then stack them upside down and you will get wonderful loam if you run out of molehills.

It is but it robs the soil of nitrogen as it rots down. Once in advanced decomposition it repays that nitrogen with a healthy supplement but nitrogen depletion is not so good for Blackcurrants while waiting

[Polarengineer]

RA, that photo shows the work of only 1 mole. I have had a good week so far and am down three moles using the dreaded petard.