Post date: May 26, 2020 1:18:20 AM
Green manuring is the process of returning green matter to the soil, to decompose and enrich it with organic matter. Organic matter feeds soil organism and makes the soil richer. Green matter will also nitrogenous the soil.
Typically green manuring is done to prepare the soil for an oncoming crop, and is done when transplants have been sown and will take 4-6 weeks to be ready to be put into the soil.
You grow a cover crop. Typically something that grows fast also fixes nitrogen. I sprinkle a mix of seeds of all kinds from the kitchen - mustard, methi, peas, tuvar, moong, jeera, chana, and beans. Thickly.
Let them grow for 45 days. Lush and green. Just as they are about to flower, chop them all off, place on top of the soil and cover completely with a layer of soil and compost. Water. Let it all decompose right there.
Chopping and dropping green vegetative growth to infuse nutrition into the soil is part of the Amrit mitti soil building process. You also retain half the growth and chop and drop it after it has flowered and fruited. Provided you have that kind of time - 90 days.
Given the limited growing window here compared to I sow a cover crop late Feb or early March and chop and drop in April. The soil is beautifully ready for transplants and seeds by end April.
Rest of the year all green materials are put into the compost pile.