Growing hairy vetch with tomatoes may also cut down on disease.

On May 1, the tomato seedlings were planted right into the middle of the hairy vetch.

In the test, scientists planted the hairy vetch seed in September 1990.

Meanwhile, using a plant like hairy vetch can help produce a healthier, less expensive tomato and not pollute the environment.

Beds mulched with hairy vetch had hardly any Colorado potato beetles.

In September, they pulled up the old tomato plants and then reseeded the untilled fields with more hairy vetch.

Interaction of light, soil moisture, and temperature with weed suppression by hairy vetch residue.

Adventurous gardeners who live in areas where temperatures are still hovering around 40 degrees Fahrenheit may want to plant hairy vetch now for next year.

Winter rye, hairy vetch or winter pea will all establish themselves quickly before going dormant.

The Hairy Vetch also has well-established uses as green manure and allelopathic cover crop.

Enter, hairy vetch.

After pulling up old crops, just broadcast seeds of rye, buckwheat or hairy vetch and rake them in.

Hairy vetch is a legume.

The Perfect Stage of the Ascochyta on the Hairy Vetch.

Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa)

Differential responses of weeds and vegetable crops to aqueous extracts of hairy vetch and cowpea.

"The more you dig, the more you disturb the soil," said Dr. Abdul-Baki, standing in his field of hairy vetch.

The researchers compared tomato plants grown in plastic mulch with those grown in a plot that was first sown with a legume, hairy vetch.

Hairy vetch is very similar to tufted vetch, the most noticeable difference being that tufted vetch has a smooth stem.

Organic gardeners often plant hairy vetch (a nitrogen-fixing legume) as a companion plant to tomatoes, as an alternative to rotating crops in small growing areas.

Vicia villosa, known as the hairy vetch, fodder vetch or winter vetch, is a plant native to Europe and western Asia.

Like the test plots of tomatoes growing in their cover crop of hairy vetch: I haven't even had time to find hairy vetch seed.

Cow Vetch is very similar to Hairy Vetch (V. villosa), but is distinguished from the latter by its smooth stem.

Hairy vetch also seems to discourage a tomato enemy, the loathsome Colorado potato beetle, which may be confused by the hairy vetch's smell.

But in Beltsville, where the hairy vetch research continues, scientists are speeding up the process - by planting tomatoes right in the hairy vetch.

Vicia villosa, known as the hairy vetch, fodder vetch or winter vetch, is a plant native to Europe and western Asia.

Furthermore, the town is the namesake of the well known - in Germany - Landsberger Gemenge (roughly "Landsberg Batch"), a winter catch crop made out of crimson clover, Italian ryegrass and fodder vetch, which is used as livestock fodder or silage.