[Hardiness Zone 9a] I’m converting my front yard into garden space, and I have two Vego Garden L-shaped raised beds. Because I was impatient and had procrastinated pre-season, I had my husband set those suckers up with zero cardboard under them and too close together. Consequently, there are SO many weeds that are impossible to pull out in between them AND it’s difficult to harvest from them. After speaking with several gardening friends, I’ve decided that I need to remove the soil and logs, move them, lay down cardboard and wood chips, and put them back farther apart.

Here’s where I need further assistance: I bought some cover crop for them and wonder if I can put the cover crop down now and move them in late April of next year (which will involve removing all the soil and putting it back in) or if I really ought to move them now and then cover crop them.

TL;DR: would I be wasting an off season of cover crop if I then removed all the soil and put it back in my raised beds.…