Preparing Soil: Tilthing the Garden

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on March 1, 1986
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Tilthing doesn't work the ground deeply — after a series of repeated choplike blows, you'll have pulverized only the surface soil right in front of you. So dig down at that spot to turn up subsurface clods, and tilth them.

The question: How can you break spaded soil into fine
particles preparing soil before you plant? The answer:

Tilthing . . . most people aren’t even familiar with the
word , much less the activity. Alan Chadwick, the
founder of biodynamic/French intensive gardening, brought

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