Double Dig Gardening

How to prepare your season garden soil.

With a little help of fresh manure that is no longer steaming, add that to your garden along with the top soil for a richer soil for your garden.  Manure has nitrogen, potassium, and other rich ingredients to make your garden grow during the gardening season.

Double digging is a technique to loosen the bottom soil and create excellent drainage for your garden.  It also creates better rich soil when you add manure and peet moss to your beds.

First, you need to take off the top soil.  Best time to do this is after it rains due to the soil will be soft not hard and easy to remove.  Work one side of the bed and using a spade shovel, go a spade deep.  Set that aside like in a wheel barrow or a side container or on a tarp for later access.  Work all the way across the bed getting all the top soil off.

Using your foot and a regular pitch fork, go fork prongs deep into the clay or 2nd layer.

Fork should look like this.  Then loosen the clay or 2nd layer and break it up.  Do not mix this area with the top soil.  Go all the way across.  Then when that area is all broken up and loose then you are ready for the next part.

The clay area should look like this in the photo above.  All nice and loose.

Next, you add a layer of manure and spread it out.  The best kind is the wormy dark kind of manure.  The worms will work the bottom layer and make it as rich as the top layer for better growing.

Then add little bit of peet moss and then take the top soil of the other side and put it on the worked side.  Pull out any weeds while you are moving the soil.  Will be less weeding later and during your gardening.

You do the same on this side as you did the other side to make even drainage.

Then when you are done with the manure and peet moss, take the saved pile of top soil and add it back to the bed, weed out any weekds, even the top and the bed is complete.  It is ready for the planting season.

And there you go, beds ready for growing your new garden with fresh plants and to make a beautiful garden for your needs.  Thank you for reading and hope you enjoy this gardening tip.