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Power Tomatoes: Heres how to grow more and better tomatoes



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Title: Power Tomatoes: Heres how to grow more and better tomatoes

USDA/ARS/Power Tomatoes:  Here's
how to grow more and better tomatoes

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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