Early Snap Peas Add Nitrogen in Summer Tomato Cages

[image error]Late last winter I cut an early row into to my winter seed rye to plant snap peas that would eventually fertilize my grape tomatoes.

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cover a strip of tilled soil with black plastic
plant pea seeds in the strip after removing plastic
when pea plants are six inches high pull any tiny weeds
place tomato cages in a line over the plants
allow pea plants to climb and produce pea pods
clear a circle of the pea plants in each cage for a young tomato plant
mulch the tomato plants.
watch the tomato plants thrive as the pea plants wither in hot weather
harvest peas and then tomatoes
mulch more around tomato plants, suppress dead pea plants
nitrogen fixing by the previous pea plants fertilize the tomato plants.