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Hi!

Last May I got a small piece of land plowed (about 80 square meters in a triangular shape), at no more than 25 cm of depth. This was previously a neglected area near my main piece of land.

It is at 1050 m above sea level. Since it was ready quite late in the season, I decided to sow a green manure for this year while gathering ideas for the next one in the meantime (a piece of this green manure shown in the picture)

My idea is to arrange it into a small forest garden, with (very few due to the small surface) fruit trees, many perennials and some small annuals plots.

I will obtain a large amount of cow manure in September.

Now I don't now exactly how to proceed: should I leave anything as it is till spring? Should I terminate the green manure only? Or should I terminate it and incorporate it into the ground together with cow manure?

Any advice is very  welcome

Thank you!
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If my goal was to have a annual garden, I would cut the green manure down before it goes to seed.  The cut green manure can just lay where it was cut or could be tilled in.

I see that you do plan to have some annual plots so the above would be my suggestion for those.
 
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