Hey there and welcome back to the podcast. When we're growing in raised beds, it's one decision to choose what will fill our bed with the first time.

But after the first season, we have to make another decision, how to refresh the soil so that it will support yet another season of high intensity growing.

I get a lot of questions about this topic,

but here are the main three.

Do I have to add entirely new soil

to my raised beds each year?

Short answer, no, but we'll talk about that.

What should I do if my bed didn't produce last year?

This is probably the most common question I hear. And how do I keep a

well-performing bed going well? What we'll talk about today will build on what we talked about

last week on filling new raised beds. Even if you aren't planning on adding any new raised beds this

year, I recommend that you listen

to that episode first.

The core principles I talked about in the last episode will inform the decisions that we

make with the raised beds that we're using in subsequent seasons.

And with that, if you're a brand new gardener and all you're going to do is fill new

raised beds or use your current soil and going to do is fill new raised beds

or use your current soil and you don't have any current raised beds to refresh, still, this

will be a great episode for you to listen to because if you are doing any raised beds next year,

you're going to want to keep in mind what you can do to refresh that soil. And also,

if you run into any issues with your new raised

beds this year, this episode will be a good one to keep in your back pocket so that you can

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