Rather than doing vegetables this summer, my husband planted our biggest bed with a cover crop: sunflowers and cowpeas. But he’s not sure what to do once they’re complete. We’re mostly no-till, and the reason for the sunflowers was to break up the soil a bit, so it doesn’t make sense to dig everything in. But there’s no way we could put a tarp over it all and let it die–there’s just too much vegetation. Should he try to chop it all up and then cover it? He’s hoping to put in winter rye (I think) for the fall, so we don’t want the bed to be out of commission for too long. Thanks.
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