Spring is right here! Learn the way to organize a backyard mattress and plant seeds with community backyard employees who're planting snap peas at the Providence Garden. Watch the video or read the steps outlined beneath.
Use a digging fork (or potato fork or broad fork) to 
loosen the soil and pull weeds from the mattress.
This motion loosens the soil and helps to convey air and moisture down into the soil,
which helps create a nice tender bed for our baby plants and their tender roots.
On this video we used aged cow manure, but you need to use 
any other herbivore manure or compost. This ought to be completed yearly, in the spring or fall, earlier 
than planting to change nitrogen and other nutrients in the soil.
Most annual vegetables and flowers are heavy feeders, so that’s why it’s necessary to replenish the soil every year with 
manure or compost. The quantity of manure 
or compost one needs really will depend on the present 
soil and site.