How do you cultivate a garden? What does that even mean? It’s pretty simple actually. It means you are improving the soil for planting. You wouldn’t expect to throw some seeds down in your front yard and expect anything to grow without giving the soil a hand.

Cultivating the soil means you are prepping it for a garden. For example, if you have a grassy hard and you want to start a garden, you will do best to use a motorized tiller to break up the dirt. A tiller will break through the grass and roots and prepare the soil for planting quickly and easily.

A tiller is ideal because it is so easy, but they can be expensive. If you are lucky, you can borrow one from someone. If you are serious about gardening and know that you might use it a least every couple of years and have a large garden, it would be worth buying one.

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.