Practices
Soil fertility is maintained by the use of green manures and composted vegetable matter and minerals. Vegan gardeners may supplement this with human urine (which provides nitrogen) and 'humanure' produced from compost toilets.
Veganic gardeners may prepare soil for cultivation using the same method used by conventional and organic gardeners of breaking up the soil with hand tools and power tools and allowing the weeds to decompose. Shallow cultivation is also becoming popular among such gardeners: shallowly turning the soil's surface using one of numerous surface cultivating tools that are now available in the market place, including the popular Coleman surface-hoes developed by Eliot Coleman. Shallow tilling disturbs the soil less than deep turning and, combined with avoidance of soil compaction as described by O'Brien, helps the soil maintain ecological balance. This minimizes the opportunities for soil diseases, plant diseases, and insect pests to become abundant.
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