Do I need to double dig my garden bed?

Do I need to double dig my garden bed?

Tracy DiSabato-Aust (Garden Designer and Author) gives expert video advice on: What are the key steps to garden bed preparation?; What is 'double digging'?; Do I need to double dig my garden bed? and more...

No, you don't really need to double dig. It's the ideal, however, not real practical, and when we're doing new gardens and numerous new gardens we'll use a rototiller. Till deeply, and if you're concerned about a hard pan developing, which sometimes can happen with rototillers, you can go into that sublevel with a fork, work it up, and add your organic amendment. But many times we're using tillers, tilling in the good organic amendments.