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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. Now it becomes a perennial living mulch to direct seed or transplant cash crops into. Instead, I can terminate my winter cover and lightly plow it in this spring, put out my transplants, and undersow white clover.

Crop 79
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Natural Senescence

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The garden wants to go to sleep, and I tuck it in with a blanket of cover crops… my favorite seed mix of vetch, rye, and clover. As my tomato plants were more than ready to be set out, I had to get the cover cut, chopped, and plowed into the soil in preparation for transplanting. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

Crop 52