All of that works for me!
You asked earlier if anyone does no-till and I do in my raised garden beds. Beau used to till them for me with our small tiller, but I had him stop after reading up on it.
It is SO much better for your soil to just ‘add to it’ with compost and other goodies, to mulch well and to disturb the soil as little as possible. For one thing, my Earthworm population has exploded, and those little buggers do SO MUCH for the soil, it’s ridiculous.
Something as dumb as an Earthworm knows what to do. Why don’t we? ;)
Most of the worms I see here are pale 1/8” pencil lead sized and 4 inches long in soil that ranges from gray to yellowish brown. Where I fed hay to the goats one Winter, under all that leftover urine & manure soaked hay, I found huge red, well fed worms 1/4” x 8 inches long in black crumbly soil. Then there’s the microorganisms/microbiology. Millions in a Tbsp of healthy soil. Mycelium too.
Immaculate design that us humans try to outdo.