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Top and drop 🌱 Soil & Medium

Cutting off a cover crop or finished vegetable plant and dropping the biomass in place as mulch, then replanting into the same bed without remixing soil.

Host checks a section topped and dropped 8 days ago (mostly lettuce) and says it is safe to replant today because the biomass is small enough not to heat up.

Discussed in: Ep 027

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