OutsideprideHairy Vetch Cover Crop Seeds - 5 Lbs Cold Tolerant, Winter Hardy - Ideal for Soil Improvement, Green Pasture, Hay & Livestock Forage - Pollinator Friendly Garden Seeds, Ground Cover

Living in dry West Texas, I basically lost my whole yard to the past several years' heat. Unfortunately, with no grass, our soil has become compacted and so much dust because there's nothing to anchor it down. Dust everywhere. Without something growing, the dry soil gets compacted and makes it even harder to grow anything. We want to grow more drought-tolerant grass next year, but needed to remediate and break up our hard soil. Hairy Vetch is one of the best things you can use to put nutrients back into the soil and make it more hospitable. We scattered the seeds with a combination of other cover crops over our front and back yard and watered pretty well. We got a bunch of rain over the past couple of weeks and it has basically exploded and our yard is now covered in bright green soft leaves. It's so pretty and good for our soil. We will keep it until it's time to spread grass seed and will mow it down and leave it for green compost. It sprouts fast, is great for pollinators and is super soft to walk on. We might just keep it and plant more next year while we're overhauling the yards. It also helps choke out weeds! If your yard needs some life put back into it, seriously consider using this hairy vetch!

Cover has sprouted and is thriving

Not nearly as much as I had hoped for the amount of seed, but there is a reasonable amount of vetch in my yard now.Planted in the fall, nothing came up until April.Zone5b

Love, love this, a work in progress!! The Hairy Vetch, together with clover grass just made my surrounding chicken coop fabulous!! A little overcast but a beautiful addition! The chickens love it so I planted it around the fencing. I grew a variety of grass in pallets in their run though 🌼☘️🌞

Good quality

I use vetch as a winter cover crop in my garden raised beds. The product I usually order was out of stock, so I ordered this one. My disappointment came with a very low germination rate. Almost nothing. As a comparison, another area where I planted the other brand LAST year but wasn't going to use this year, was literally OVERGROWN with volunteer Vetch.Crossing my fingers that the brand I have always used is available this winter (2024).

I just threw the coated seeds into the garden areas, they grew well. I would buy them again.

I did not get what I ordered, but due to customer service and prompt shipment, I am more impressed with Outsidepride than even before. People make mistakes, but how they respond after is a sign of true character.