Hairy Vetch Seed
For mixtures reduce the hairy vetch seeding rate by 25 and the grain seeding rate by 50 from rates recommended for pure stands.
Hairy vetch seed. Hairy vetch is an annual plant which is most commonly used as a green manure. Of nitrogen very few legumes can come close to the benefits hairy vetch can present. It will generally survive over the winter in Kansas with occasional winter kill.
When hairy vetch is spring sown it will bloom and produce some seed the same season. Likely to freeze at -30 degrees F. Unbeatable for fixing nitrogen on poor dry sandy soils or on soils too acidic for clovers.
Inoculate for best results. Cut when blooms begin to appear and turn under for a wonderful green manure. This forage legume is also known as hairy vetch or winter vetch.
It has vining fine stems up to 12 long. Hairy Vetch Seeds Beautiful Purple Flowers - Great Butterfly Plant10 - Seeds Alfalfa Seeds- Farmer Direct USA Grown- Premium Certified Clean Alfalfa Seed - 25 LBS - High Germination Conventional Alfalfa Seed -Garden Seed Cover Crop Field Growing Alfalfa Hay Alfalfa Honey. To plant hairy vetch plow the soil as you would for any regular crop.
45 103Ounce 1592 1592. It has a similar scrambling climbing growth habit to common vetch and will survive throughout the winter. Will grow 3 to 4-ft.
Inoculated hairy vetch seed can be drilled at a rate of 25 to 35 lbacre. Hairy vetch is the most winter-hardy of the commercial vetches though it may not survive a winter without a snow cover. It will do well in soils too acidic for many clovers and alfalfas.