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double digging

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double digging
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Brit a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one


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Mike, a retired civil servant, gave his allotment a good double digging when he first started.
Most vegetable roots are in the top 6 inches of soil, so tilling or double digging will easily mix the materials into the soil where the roots can reach it.
A vanilla panacotta appeared on the other side of the table, her reasoning being that, with all her horse riding and double digging on the allotment, the occasional creamladen, calorie-rich dish hardly mattered.
 
 
 
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