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Practicing Resurrection: Using Green Manures on a Small Semi-Urban Homestead

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The quarter acre I steward in Northeastern Pennsylvania is, I hope, an incarnation of this contradiction. Tomatoes planted into a tilled-in rye, vetch, and red clover green manure, May 21. I put in the tomatoes on May 21, 11 days after tilling in the green manure. This spring, I planted a seed pack from High Mowing Seeds.

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