>I have also seen rye rolled to kill it, and then >tomatoes planted into the yellow straw--but you >probably don't have acres of tomatoes either...Dorothy
We have a neighbor who grows rye and vetch over winter and then lightly spades it down. Her tomatoes are wonderful and blight free and there is no weed problem Kerry Sullivan was using a roller with fins welded on it to 'crimp' the stalks at they rolled down. They remained alive but could not right themselves. He used no-till equipment to plant into them after than
