Content
- Why you should dig a vegetable garden - and when not better
- New beds have to be dug up in any case
- Dig soil best in the fall or winter
- Dig up the garden floor - That's how it works
- Fine soil processing takes place in spring
- Tips
Digging is best done in the fall
Why you should dig a vegetable garden - and when not better
The soil in a vegetable garden requires intensive care, the plants should thrive on it and bear plenty of fruit. This soil care includes work such as digging, ergo the deep loosening, but also the fine soil treatment directly before planting. Digging up has many advantages, but it does not make sense in any garden or in any case.
New beds have to be dug up in any case
Unless you have topped off the topsoil and applied fresh topsoil (for example, when converting a lawn into a vegetable garden), all fresh flowerbeds and planting areas will need to be thoroughly relaxed. In general, digging is advisable on all newly cultivated soils - including thorough readout of weed roots and rocks. For digging a good spade or a digger fork as well as sow tooth and rake, but also a powerful motor pick will do a good job.
Dig soil best in the fall or winter
The digging or other methods of deep loosening later also become the necessary annual routine for beds with annual vegetables and herbs. This work is best done in the autumn, after the beds are harvested. But even in late winter - in good weather in January - a digging is still possible and then even has the advantage that overwintering snails and other soil pests are removed with the same.
Dig up the garden floor - That's how it works
The digging ensures a good mixing and aeration of the soil. In addition, root weeds and stones can be carefully removed. Do not order the bed immediately after digging, but allow it to rest for about two weeks. This deadline must be observed, in particular in case of possible autumn planting. In addition, tillage should be carried out with the soil slightly moist but never wet. Otherwise, the danger increases that the wet soil is additionally compacted. And so you go about the best possible way when digging:
Fine soil processing takes place in spring
The resulting coarse clods are automatically crushed by the winter frosts, then in the spring takes then finally the fine tillage, in which you proceed as follows:
Tips
Light or humus, medium soils should not be dug up. Here, the digging can cause the humus is degraded faster. Loosen these soils better with a grave fork (but without turning the soil!) And a sow tooth.