Double digging

Double Digging How-To
Step-by-step instructions for creating the deep, loose soil your plants desire.
By Dan Sullivan ...

Benefits of Double Digging
When you double dig the garden, it is actually better for the soil than machine tilling.

Double Digging: An evil concept whereby you dig a large area with a shovel, and when you are finished you do it again.
Garden Catalog: A well-illustrated work of fiction.
Grass: A plant found in flower gardens that needs little or no care.

Double digging
Double digging is useful when drainage needs to be improved, or if the ground has not been previously cultivated. This is a time-consuming process but is worth the hard work and will result in good soil.

Double Digging-a practice of digging to a certain depth (2 feet) and adding compost to improve soil structure and fertility. ...

Double Digging: A method of digging the soil by digging down two spits (the depth of two spade heads) then putting the soil from one row into the next row.
Double flower: See flower.

Double Digging
This technique is often used where a hard sub-surface layer of soil has formed, or on land that is being cultivated for the first time. It involves digging to the equivalent depth of two spade blades (see opposite).

double digging
Preparing the soil by systematically digging an area to the depth of two shovels.
double flower ...

Double digging Soil bed preparation done by two or more spading sessions, preparing the soil by systematically digging an area to the depth of two shovels.
Double nose Said of bulbs with two growing apices.

DOUBLE DIGGING - A method of deep cultivation.
DOUBLE FLOWER - A flower that is full from overlapping petals.

Double Digging
1/ Dig a trench about 2 foot wide and the depth of 1 spade at one end of the plot.
2/ Put the dug out earth into a wheel barrow.
3/ Drive your fork into the bottom of the trench to 1 fork's depth.
4/ Loosen the earth with the fork.

DOUBLE DIGGING: a method of digging a garden bed which involves removing the soil to the depth of one spade blade and then digging down an equal distance, breaking up and mixing the soil.

DOUBLE DIGGING - A method of deep cultivation. Preparing the soil by systematically digging an area to the depth of two shovels.

Preparation is very simple to do by ensuring that the ground is thoroughly dug (see double digging) or rotovated, removing weeds and other unwanted debris.

French intensive or biodynamic gardening, for example, which involves techniques such as double digging and routine applications of compost, yields soils so rich that plants can be grown twice, ...

Manual tilling, such as double digging, involves turning the soil over with a shovel.

This is one situation where double digging is definitely out. When planting close to a line, you may also want to choose species that do not require frequent dividing.

Known as double digging, this process can quickly improve drainage, encourage plant roots to grow deeper and improve soil aeration.

Home gardeners can break up and mix the hardpan layer by "double digging" the soil. This involves removing 10 to 12 inches of topsoil, and then working organic matter into the 12-inch layer of material that lies below.

Double digging, a labor-intensive technique recommended in countless garden books but rarely put into practice, is the rule in my garden. Pink-cheeked from exertion, I dig until my back begs for mercy.

1)Newspaper. Digging a garden is so 20th century. Yes, things grow better when you loosen the soil, but one hearty double digging when you start your garden should pretty much do it.

A single round-point shovel for digging, a flat-edged spade for edging and double digging (a technique of turning soil for a new garden bed) and a simple garden fork for cultivating soil is all you really need.

After double digging, work the soil with compost or other organic material like ash, bonemeal or seaweed. Some experts recommend retaining at least a third of your garden soil and mixing it with the new soil you add into the raised bed.

The digging variety
can perform a similar function to the digging spade except that it provides only a
complete inversion of the soil, whereas the spade can be used for both trenching and
double digging as well.

See also: Soil, Double dig, Plant, Gardening, Compost