Are You Familiar with Vetch?
@bagarad (14283)
Paso Robles, California
April 27, 2016 12:55am CST
It is usually seen in wild places in open fields or along the road. Maybe it has even appeared on your property. Some farmers use it as a cover crop. It does add nutrients, as other members of the pea family do, to the soil.
I think it's pretty. It's like a miniature sweet pea.
Have you seen this plant where you live? Do you consider it a friend, an invader, or just part of the environment.
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@GardenGerty (169528)
• United States
23 May 16
@peavey So much wasted energy fighting weeds.
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@GardenGerty (169528)
• United States
23 May 16
I first noticed it as a teen or younger. In the state where I grew up we often saw it planted in the spaces between the different exits and roundabouts on the interstate. Here I see it occasionally as a part of the environment.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
23 May 16
There was a lot of it on my Templeton property when we moved there, and a farmer who worked in the area said many had used it as a cover crop. People grew a lot of wheat in my neck of the woods. The grapes came later.
@changjiangzhibin89 (17243)
• China
19 May 16
The vetch is a common weed here and I have never heard of using it as cover crop like we use the Chinese milk vetch here.Compendium of Materia Medica recorded the vetch,said it can treat malaria and nosebleed.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
6 Jun 16
If it's growing in my garden without an invitation it is a weed. Grow ing in the fence row it is a pretty plant.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
28 Apr 16
some came'p here some years back 'n jest kept spreadin' e'ery year. 'n then the drought came'n stayed, they all perished. yepperz, a purty lil plant/flowers. they do add nutrients 'n their root systems help to aerate the soil's well.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
27 Apr 16
It's considered a weed? It looks like a flower plant you would buy.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
28 Apr 16
Farmers do buy the seed. There are many flowers the gardening books classify as weeds. A weed technically is any plant growing where it's not wanted.
