Teaching Organic Farming and Gardening

Tillage and Cultivation

Unit 1.2 | 43

Step 1 First layer of compost

Digging board

Place soil from trench into

wheelbarrow or end of bed

Use digging board

and spade as fulcrum,

shift soil forward

Step 2 Add second layer of compost

to bottom of trench

Loosen soil

Step 3

Repeat steps 2-5

Step 4

Step 5

Step 6

Replace soil

in last trench

Appendix 3: Double Digging Sequence

Appendix 3

illustrations by
Cathy Genetti Reinhard

Slide digging board to the left

Fracture and loosen soil to

depth of tines