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Living Mulch Cover Cropping for Gardens and Small Farms: Managing an “organic matter” system

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He would let the cover crop grow and overwinter and then plow down the following spring for green manure. Periodic mowing keeps it under control and adds a green manure mulch to the crops. Instead, I can terminate my winter cover and lightly plow it in this spring, put out my transplants, and undersow white clover.

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