So, it probably won't cause too much trouble next year. So, again, we chop it up and till it into the soil. Well, in that case, you can either chop it up, leave it in place and rake it out in the spring. Or, you can just take it out right now in the fall, chop it up and put it in your compost pile. A lot of us work the compost pile, throwing back the things that take a little longer to decompose.
Corn stalks are a good example of that, too.
They really break down very slowly, so it might be better to take it out this fall. Of course, we can speed up anything that breaks down by chopping it. Yep, it's one of those concepts of composting. The smaller the chopping, the quicker it's going to break down. Cut it up into as small pieces as you have time to chop it up into.