What are the key steps to garden bed preparation?

What are the key steps to garden bed preparation?

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...

With garden bed preparation, first you'd want to test the soil. You'd want to eliminate weeds. You'd want to mend the soil with organic matter, that's really the key, and preferably a nutrient providing organic matter. And often at this time too is when I like to add some phosphorous into the soil, and you can do that with soft phosphate or rock phosphate, which are organic products. Because phosphorous is immobile in the soil, we add that as we're preparing the soil to have it right at root level.