Double digging up the soil in the garden multiplies the yield and soil fertility.

The first step is to figure out what double digging of beds is. It is easy to guess that the digging process is carried out twice: first, remove the top layer with a shovel, and then loosen the soil with a pitchfork.

After that, we return the removed fertile layer to its original place, having previously selected from it as many roots of weeds as possible. Some gardeners place dry corn stalks or other green mass in trenches.

Over time, this mass decays, making the soil more fertile and loose.
At first glance, double digging is a very time consuming process. This is true, but it is enough for three years.

Considering what advantages this option of digging will bring, it is still worth spending time and energy, and as a result, get a rich harvest of vegetables.

The bed with the green mass laid in it rises slightly above the ground level throughout the garden. This makes it easy to track when double digging should be done again. When the garden bed is on the same level as the whole garden, it means that the green mass has rotted and no longer has a beneficial effect on the crops grown.

But one should not forget about the surface fertilization of the soil. Applying humus or other fertilizers will increase your yield.
I want to share the experience of double digging using the example of a cucumber garden.

I can say with confidence that the result will delight even the most picky gardener: so many cucumbers have grown that I did not even know where to put them.

My bed was the following dimensions: 1m wide and 10m long. I removed the top layer of soil to the depth of a bayonet shovel, and then loosened the bottom layer with a pitchfork. Having laid the plant remains and straw in the trench, I covered everything with earth. The garden bed turned out to be higher than the rest of the garden.

Then I made grooves and put cucumber seeds in them, sprinkled them with earth. So that the land on the sides of the garden is not empty in vain, I sowed dill. These vegetable crops perfectly coexist with each other. Dill is an aphid repellent and lures bees that pollinate the cucumbers with its scent.

The mass located in the lower layer of the bed has a beneficial effect on the roots. Double digging is especially good for heavy soils in rainy years: moisture passes more easily into the soil and plant roots do not rot.

When the green mass is decomposed, heat is released and cucumbers grow faster.
A big plus is the almost complete absence of weeds, because with this option of digging, the roots of harmful plants are selected and destroyed.

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