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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