According to Dominique SOLTNER:
Hello Mr Soltner,
You are absolutely right about the benefits of composting in place after mulching. And I find this practice much easier easier to be carried out with better results for the crops in place or to come.
If I talked about shredding straw, leaves and hay, to make quality compost, it's to curb the oh so bad but widespread habit, of a systematic burning of waste of the garden. The mulching of dry waste in the massifs is confronted with the aesthetic criteria of our society.
I agree that beauty is only subjective and that the interest of a garden depends first on the well-being of the inhabitants , especially those on the ground.
But what do you want! It is still better to see the dry stems of yarrow and other Perowskia composted than transformed into ashes.
It also means benefiting from a source of dry matter , say brown, which we will mix with green materials (such as grass,) in order to prevent our inexperienced gardeners from abandoning composting because of the smells...
Aesthetics, agronomy and a certain lack of ecological knowledge lead to different and sometimes even contradictory practices.
Sincerely,
Daniel LYS
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