How To Prepare Your Soil For Vegetables?

Question

Is it advisable that every plant we prepared one small pit & put garden soil inside & then saw(put) seed ? Can we get good results by this method?

Answer 1

It depends on what you are growing and how deep the roots will grow. When you improve soil in small areas like that, it creates a "bowl" for the plant to grow in. The plant roots will stay within the good soil rather than pass through to the original soil which may be clayey. This can cause the plant roots to keep circling.

It is better to prepare a whole bed with the soil amendments and as deep as the plants need for good root growth. Here is information on the depth certain vegetables grow:

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/vgen/raised-bed-soil-depth.htm