noun

• A widely distributed scrambling herbaceous plant of the pea family, which is cultivated as a silage or fodder crop.

  See also tare

  Genus Vicia, family Leguminosae: several species, in particular the European common vetch (V. sativa)

  ‘Buckwheat, mustard, rape, or fast-growing legumes, such as vetches or crimson clover, can be used.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Sometimes, instead of a multi-year hayfield, Moyer will just use hairy vetch or a vetch / oats mix as a cover crop between the summer wheat harvest and corn planting the following spring.’
  • ‘After you prepare a seed bed in your future tomato plot, plant the vetch, either by broadcasting or in shallow furrows at the rate of an ounce of seed per 10 square feet.’
  • ‘Plant vetch and winter rye as a cover crop on bare soil and protect remaining produce with row cover as October frosts approach.’
  • ‘My vetch and oat cover crops look like they'll make it into the winter with sufficient growth to survive the cold.’