As I harvest in the autumn a cloak of green manure is sown to cover any bare earth.
This cloak will;
-out compete weeds,
- keep fungi strong (as the mycellium can only stay alive for a short time in the soil without their host -plants),
- maintain a good soil structure by stopping weathering, holding soil together with roots and those of fungi they host,
- providing shelter for soil insects, food for decomposers like worms when mulched and provide nutrients/mulch for next springs plantings (this green manure is lupin and broad beans for corn crops).