What does it mean to cultivate your garden? You are simply making the soil better. If you walked into your backyard right now, Im sure you wouldnt just throw some tomato seeds on the grass and expect plump tomatoes in a couple months by doing nothing else.

When you cultivate the soil, you prepare it for the plants you are going to grow. To begin, lets assume you are just starting a garden and only have your grassy yard. Ideally, you will use a motorized tiller. A tiller takes all the hard work out of cultivating your garden. You just turn it on and push it across your garden. It will break up all the grass and ground for you.

A tiller is the best to use, but they aren’t cheap. If you know someone who already owns a tiller, you can borrow theirs if you’re lucky. If you are serious gardener and plan on doing a lot of gardening for years to come, you might want to buy your own.

If you dont have access to a tiller, dont worry, cultivating your garden is not impossible. First, you will need a shovel and maybe a pickax. At the very least you will need a shovel to begin with. Use the shovel to trace out your garden plot and dig up all the grass. I prefer to remove the grass and add it to my compost so that the garden plot has room to add new fresh soil.

If the grass is really tough, you can use a pickax to help break it up. Once youve removed all the grass, you can further use the pickax to break up all the large clumps. Once youve got most of the large tough stuff broken up, you can move on to using the garden hoe. A garden hoe has a small plate on the end that you can use to chop up your soil and dirt.

Finish breaking of the remaining small clumps with a garden cultivator and use it to rake out any rocks and roots that are left. This will get your soil smooth and ready.

Once all the soil is properly cultivated, you can add some extra nutrient rich soil and fertilizer. Now you are ready to start gardening. Continue to cultivate the soil in between the plants so that the soil stays well drained and the plants keep growing.

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