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

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Tomatoes planted into a tilled-in rye, vetch, and red clover green manure, May 21. Photo: Lee Rinehart, NCAT I cut the cover crop on May 10 and incorporated the green residue into the soil to a depth of about four inches with a Sunjoe electric tiller. I put in the tomatoes on May 21, 11 days after tilling in the green manure.

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