Preparing The Soil For Gardening

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Preparing and improving the quality of the soil is a constant project.  The poorest soil, with patience and diligence, can be converted into a fertile productive soil.  If possible, and if soil has not been plowed or tilled for a garden, plow if first- deeply.  Then till it with a good tiller.  If no plowing is available, till soil increasing depth a little at a time.  If you cover this freshly tilled soil with leaves, grass clippings, clean kitchen waste (lettuce leaves, peelings, etc, no animal products) and water down and let lay fallow, it will rot and compost into the soil and break it down.  Adding cow or horse manure, etc. and tilling it into the soil enriches and feeds needed nutrients to provide healthy growth of seeds or plants place in the garden.  Adding to the soil is a constant procedure.  It will improve the soil to a point you will see productive yields constantly increase because of the soil enrichment.

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