No-till

Home vegetable or flower gardeners are often unhappy with their soil quality. They routinely incorporate organic matter in the soil each fall, but don't see much change in their soil texture. Why aren’t they developing beautiful crumbly dark brown soil that’s easy to plant and great for vegetable root crops?

Routinely tilling garden soil each fall and spring could be the culprit.

Microbes, Humus and Soil Aggregation
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