Chop and drop

Chop and Drop Mulching should be considered a basic, core skill for Permaculturists... and it is so easy!

Chop & Drop mulching utilises overgrown herbs, veg, shrubs and even weeds in your garden. Perennials accumulate a lot of micro-nutrients in their leaves.

In my blog post I provide an overview of how you can use chop-and-drop to build next year's abundance. What is chop-and-drop?

Discover how chop-and-drop can revolutionize your gardening approach, fostering healthier plants and building nutrient-rich soil for long-term success.

This catchphrase of permaculture, chop and drop, is covered deeply in this article with a focus on its power to build soil and alter patterns of succession.

It can take months, if not years, to create a sufficient amount of traditional compost in compost bins. Thankfully, there's another, simpler way to improve your soil: the chop and drop system.

By growing your own mulch plants you will save money, time and effort! Chop and drop for mulch plants will benefit your soil and keep the weeds down.

When your vegetables die after the first deep frost, what do you do? If you chop-and-drop your dead vegetables, you can build soil in place.

I’ve written a fair bit about comfrey and its many uses, including how to propagate it and making comfrey fritters. At one point, I wrote an extensive blog called “everything I know about comfrey so far” just to get it all out there and clear up a few myths. As an extension of that blog here’s a more detailed look at using comfrey leaves as mulch, aka “chopping and dropping”. We’ve got a big bank of comfrey downhill of our young espalier orchard which is on a small terrace carved out of a…