What Legume Roots Do for Your Soil
Watch Noah and Jakin dig up a legume plant at 7 weeks to show you what's happening underground. You'll see nitrogen-fixing nodules on the roots and the earthworms and biology that legumes attract—the real reasons farmers add them to cover crop mixes.
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0:00 Hey guys, check it and I heard checking.
0:02 Out our plot so we planted on July 4th.
0:04 It's August 24th so we're at about seven.
0:07 Weeks to growth and we just want to show
0:08 You one of the reasons we'd love to put.
0:10 Legumes in any cover crop mix, yeah.
0:13 I'm just gonna pull one from the soil.
0:19 Away you can see the life that is going.
0:22 On underneath the soil here you see this.
0:24 Earthworm and earthworms are really good.
0:26 For the soil, actually in crawling through and producing these holes in the soil and helps water infiltration and just water pathways and air pathways. Also on the plants here you can see these white little round things that are nodules and those are fixing and producing nitrogen that will later on be released back into the soil helping the next cash crop.