Cover your soil:

  I use raised beds are ideal  for  the ‘no dig’ system. 

Make the beds wide enough for you to reach across so that you do not have to walk on them. 

Also  make them high enough that you do not have to bend down to far.

Raised beds are  a win-win situation for the’ no dig ‘method 

I cover my empty beds ( I have 19 of them ) with  thick grey sheets of plastic.

Doing so, helps keep the weeds down, by not letting weed seeds that are blown about by the winter winds settle on the beds. Hopefully making them be weed-free when it is time to plant in spring. 

The inorganic winter covers work best for raised beds because the soil beneath the covers  does not get rained on and are keep warmer because they are not open to deep frost of winter.