Cover crops

There are a lot of UK farmers using cover crops now, I follow a few of them on Twitter to see what they're up to. Many of them don't use weed killer to terminate the cover crop but instead roll and crimp it, while a thing on the back of the tractor makes a parting in the mulch in to which the next crop is sown. They like posting photos of their soil and get very excited about worms. 

I've got field beans sown in beds where there's nothing growing over winter or where there were big gaps. You can pinch off the tips and eat them in a salad. Hopefully they'll provide some early forage for the bees.