Versatile legume crop. It can be grown alone or mixed with cereal grain for high-quality forage. The most winter and frost-hardy of legumes. It has the potential to withstand temperatures as low as 5 degrees with no cover. It has a tap root that will extend 1-3’ into the soil. Vetch will thrive even in dry conditions. It becomes a vigorous annual cover crop, yet it is considered noninvasive in our area. A popular restorative crop for the garden when seeded in the fall to over winter and then it can be mulched back into the soil as a fertile green compost providing nitrogen to the soil. This vining, trailing legume will soften and revitalize compact, deficient, uncultivated soils. Matures in 80-90 days. Drill/broadcast Rate: 15-40#/Acre. Early maturing. High Nitrogen production. Broadcasts well.
Quantity on Hand: -78
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Product Number: #5790