@12345@scholar.social Sure, thing is you always have to loosen up the soil when you first work it (and some parts were not worked before, so I double-digged them), while others were opened up but not tilled. It's more akin to what a broadfork does.

Unless you have an extensive life that already provided the soil structure, you are not likely to see your soil soft after just 1 digging. In my experience new, compact soil need an additional break every year or so for a few years before the structure (eventually) kicks in. Every year will be softer, and as long as you don't turn it upside down you should not be harming the soil life.

That's afaik, of course, and I may be wrong, I often am