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

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What’s more, it comes on strong in the early spring yielding loads of plant biomass and unparalleled nutrition for summer crops. 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 year was weird.

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