While cover crops offer numerous benefits to a vegetable ... at the base and laying it over to create a decomposing thatch/mulch layer for the garden without disturbing the soil.

For these reasons, cover crops give weeds plenty of competition while alive and as a mulching effect while dead. They also offer a protective cover for land once a cash crop is removed.

If you don’t have three to four weeks for the cover crop to decompose, you can remove the stems and leaves and apply them somewhere else as a mulch or compost them, or double dig the cover crop ...

Use mulch There are several types of mulch ... to improve your weed-free garden experience even more, plant a fall cover crop! Buckwheat, annual clover, peas or annual rye are all good choices.

Frederik originally implemented his living mulch system to prevent soil erosion, but has since found it to be more reliable than the use of cover crops and also helps to improve water retention ...

How are you going to establish the cover crop you choose? Common goals might be to address soil compaction, depleted soils, bio-fumigation of the soil and mulch covers. You would not want to plant ...

you could grow a cover crop or you could cover the soil with mulch and leave it unplanted.” Most annual plants commonly grown in vegetable gardens fall within nine plant families. Amaryllidaceae ...