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As a muchly  keen mulcher  I've spent years of effort carpeting my soil with dead matter. Usually anything that was once growing  can be used as mulch this way.  Chop and drop. Lawn clippings. Straw. Paper... More recently I've been much taken with green, or living, mulching Living mulch provides numerous benefits to the garden and soil. What is living mulch? Any plant that is used to cover an ar…