double digging


double digging

n (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

double digging

A method of deep cultivation where the soil is worked to twice the depth of a spade by first digging a trench and then digging the bottom of the trench.