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What gardeners call tilth, it begins with layers of fallen logs, twigs, broken branches and dried leaves.

Considering women as the functional equivalent of tilth — prepared soil ready to be seeded — reclassified them as property: real estate in which men grow their crops of children.

Fertile soil with good tilth does not come about with a single or even several additions of organic material, but from a consistent soil-building program.

An introduction to the basic components of organic gardening that outlines the secrets of great soil, such as good soil tilth, texture and structure, and an abundance of organic matter.

So, unlike virtually every other gardener in Britain, I had no intention of spending my summer wandering among aristocratic roses and marvelling at the fine tilth of Lord Whatsit’s sandy carrot beds.