Living mulch
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living-mulch-310-14275703
title:
Living mulch
text:
In agriculture, a living mulch is a cover crop interplanted or undersown with a main crop, and intended to serve the purposes of a mulch, such as weed suppression and regulation of soil temperature. Living mulches grow for a long time with the main crops, whereas cover crops are incorporated into the soil or killed with herbicides. Other benefits of mulches are slowing the growth of weeds, and protecting soil from water and wind erosion. Some living mulches were found to increase populations of
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Cover crop grown with a main crop as mulch
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_mulch
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2023-06-24T13:51:04Z
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