Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) on Nostr: I’d never tried to grow a winter cover crop before and had never heard of Hairy ...

I’d never tried to grow a winter cover crop before and had never heard of Hairy Vetch. I thought the name sounded very funny. Discovered it is very good at fixing nitrogen from the air. It’s much smaller than the Rye but seems to grow fine twining around the larger sturdy Rye stalks. It will self-seed easily but I added both to the compost before their seeds dropped.

For others here’s a closeup of the Hairy Vetch.

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