What's up everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast today. We're going to talk about an update to my experiment on covercropping in a raised bed.

This is something that I wanted to try because I bought soil. I bought a 65% topsoil, 35% compost mix, and I bought a lot of it. I bought three cubic yards and it's good soil. I had it tested,

nutrient-wise it is rich. However, it is a bit too high in clay so I wanted to test out could I improve it by growing a cover crop in a

raised bed which is not something you would traditionally see normally you would

see someone grow cover crops if they're doing a more permaculturist approach or they have actual

land that they are growing in that they need to improve that soil. So we're going to do an update on that,

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cover crops. So what I did is I bought a fall cover crop mix from a bunch of different places. I wanted to test out a couple

different sources and then what I had to do was inoculate them because the way that cover crops

function, and I've talked about this before is that their primary

function is to add nitrogen to the soil so you're growing nitrogen fixing plants

but those

require a symbiotic relationship with bacteria that live on the nodules of the roots of those plants.

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