We seeded crimson clover as a cover crop in the vegetable beds after the last harvests before winter. It's ready to be tilted in anytime now. Clover is a legume and the bacteria living close to the roots of leguminous plants have the ability to capture nitrogen from the air and provide nitrogen in a form that can be absorbed by plants. Apart from nitrogen fixation, clover's root system can help to hold on to the nutrients in the soil from leaching over the winter. It also helps to suppress other weeds and add organic matter to the soil after it's tilted in.
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