Covering the ground with grass is a soil management technique with low environmental impact, used as a potential solution to work land where fruit trees grow, and involving covering the ground with secondary crops. By covering the ground with grass and the vegetation is cut to a height of 10-15 cm, no tillage is needed. The land where fruit trees grow has much better protection against erosion, with the structure and ability to transition much improved; the roots of the grasses also play an important role in deepening P and K distributed on the surface.
In vine cultivation, under-vine, grassing with leguminous plants (for example subterranean clover) is also become more common, allowing fertilization to be reduced to a minimum.
The main drawback is competition by the grassy cover with the trees, and this is why covering the ground with grass is ideal for orchards with fertile terrain. In addition to storing organic carbon (mitigation effect), the field provides an environmental service that increases the biodiversity of the ecological niche, both from the standpoint of the plants in the field and at a microbic level in the ground. These factors improve the soil structure.
