Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for June 05, 2015

What your grandmother said.

i thought turning over the soil was good for the health of the garden

There’s debate on the turning over soil issue. If you have good dirt with worms, nature will create the right balance of soil structure and you’ll hurt that by digging it up, create too much airspace if it’s too loose. So some of us dig as little as possible, some are still creating the good dirt by adding compost, and some do the traditional digging of the beds each year. My beds are in the first 2 categories (some older than others)