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Has anyone ever tried "compost in place"? This method involves growing a cover crop, crimping or "chop and drop" terminating, layering with wood chips and repeat! It seems like a wonderful way to get that brown/green lasagna, and keep weeds out! I Have fruit trees and berry patches planted throughout my lawn, and I feel like this would be an awesome way to keep an area healthy, and the active accumulation of plants/wood chips seems like it would do a great job of keeping the grass from creeping in. I got the idea from "Well Grounded Garden" YouTube channel, she does hers in raised beds. I think she uses and oat/pea mix, sometimes mustard. (Cross posting into cover crop since this is a combination technique)
 
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Something similar to this?

Chop and Drop is a technique where you cut unwanted plants and use the cuttings as a smothering mulch on other unwanted plants - while simultaneously mulching around desired plants.



https://permies.com/wiki/98575/Chop-Drop-PEP-BB-gardening


 
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I think the OP means something more sophisticated than simple chop & drop, since after this procedure, wood chips are addded and everything is repeated again.

I have not tried this method before, but I can see its potential benefits: balanced ratio of nitrogen (chopped cover crop) and carbon (wood chips) as well as the benefits of the living roots (of the cover crop) for soil life.
 
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Thomas Schendel wrote:I think the OP means something more sophisticated than simple chop & drop, since after this procedure, wood chips are addded and everything is repeated again.



Did you go to that link?

And so that done in the link for the BB, with the exception as Paul Wheaton explains  to use twigs and brush picked up from around the property:



 
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So the difference between the thing OP shared and the chop in drop I see in the link and video is intention.
Sowing a cover crop instead of just allowing things to grow.
Covering with wood chips instead of woody brush.
It will be more work, but woody debris in particular can become habitat for voles and other nibblers that ring the bark on fruit trees.

I think a leguminous cover crop planted into last year's wood chips makes s lot of sense.
I don't know how much foliage a ground nut makes, but if it's substantial, that would be my pick.
In warm regions, peanuts might be great.
 
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