Vetch

Vetch — an annual plant of the family Fabaceae.

Plant height from 20 cm to 80 cm. Vetch can be used as green manure, forage and honey crop. When used as a green manure is valued for its earliness . It produces excellent forage and hay, used for making grass meal, haylage bookmarks .

Blooms in mid-summer. Currently, it is grown as a green fodder raw materials, used as a fertilizer, source of hay and silage, and are sown on fallow fields. Wick concentrates the level of nitrogen, deters pests, loosens the soil and improves its qualitative composition before planting other crops. Vetch is also a plant - a honey plant, one hectare of plants can produce up to 20 kg of honey. Vick is not demanding to soil, but not grow in the salt marshes, the sand, upon acidification. Can tolerate cold down to — 5... OS - 6 OS.

Vetch is undemanding to heat. Seeds begin to germinate at a temperature of 2-3°C, and seedlings can withstand freezing down to 4-6°C. moisture-loving culture. Most of the water absorbs during the intensive growth of the vegetative mass and the phase flowering-fruit formation. Grows well in neutral or slightly acidic soils. Wiki seeds during germination requires good moisture, we wrap it to a depth of at least 4-5 cm For light soils the depth increases to 5-6 cm Seedlings emerge in 7-10 days. Sow its seeds at the same time with early crops.

Length of the vegetation period, depending on varieties and weather conditions, ranges from 55 to 70 days when grown for hay and 75 to 120 days when grown for seeds.

At the beginning of flowering vetch accumulates approximately 43-45% of the crop. The maximum yield of dry weight falls on the phase of pod formation. By the time of flowering, plant height does not exceed 50 cm, and by the time of pod formation reaches 80 cm and more.

Vetch is planted in spring along with herbs as a plant, choke

the growth of weeds. After regrowth of grass vetch is harvested.

Under the winter vetch is planted in the end of August. Spring vetch grows before planting peppers, tomatoes, etc.

Vetch is sown and cut 1-2 times a season. Cut 3 weeks before planting and 2 before transplanting in the budding phase by the cultivator or by the cultivator