Here’s a great little gardening secret: chips with everything
Brought up on a steady diet of old-school gardening books, as we get into autumn I would once have been convinced that now was time to prepare for the Victorian practice of double-digging. Excavating the soil from garden beds out to approximately 50cm, before mixing it with copious amounts of manure or compost before backfilling it, this was proper back-breaking work but with allegedly enormous benefits.
Fortunately, in subsequent decades a range of scientific trials compiled by Washington State University have shown that this practice is not only unnecessary, but in fact creates worse results by a whole number of measures. Following on the work of Washington State University’s associate professor Linda Chalker-Scott, I have become fascinated with easier, cheaper ways of improving the soil where I garden, and have seen results that have radically changed my way of thinking. As a total fanboy, I have even put my own spin on her ideas. As now is the perfect time to get started, here is a quick run-through of the process.
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