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question about bark material in raised bed mix

For my raised bed mix I have been using 70% topsoil, 15% greenall microbark and 15% peat moss. I use greenall microbark because it was the closest thing I could find in my area to the pine fines recommended by Tapla for this application. However, I have a landscaper making a very long raised bed for me, and apparently he didn't understand the difference between the greenall microbark I suggested and other barks, so he used a bark product that is mixed size. The type of wood is either fir or pine, but I can tell just from looking at it that the general size of the bark pieces is larger and thinner than the microbark. He also reduced the percentage of bark to 10% because a local soil expert he spoke with expressed concern that bark would tie up nitrogen in the soil.


Should the mix sized bark be okay in this mix? or if there is any issue it could cause, is there anything I can do to mitigate it?

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