Feed the soil using only minimal amounts of fertilizer!

Avoid black plastic film's cost and landfill woes!

Reduce your worries about weeds!

Best of all, plan for a bumper crop of everybody's favorite midsummer crop!

Whether you're a backyard tomato baron or a commercial producer, you can do it yourself—almost effortlessly!

Transplant your tomato seedlings into a home-grown cover crop which you convert into a soil-feeding mulch by mowing!

This simple tomato-growing system, which works well for other vegetables too, was developed by scientists at USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland. Check out these tomatoes…

A Gardener's Freebie—A free brochure, detailing this innovative system!

How You Do It—Learn how to grow tomatoes in a cover crop of hairy vetch.

Hairy Vetch—Hairy what???

The Project and the Scientists—Sparking a sustainable ag revolution.

National Agricultural Library—A cornucopia of agricultural information from USDA.

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