Posted on 03/20/2025 1:35:29 PM PDT by DallasBiff
If you are looking for something to naturalize a sloping home landscape, consider planting crown vetch for a natural backyard. While some may think of it as merely a weed, others have long since taken advantage of this plant's unique beauty and use in the landscape. Best of all, the care of crown vetch ‘weed' is extremely easy. So how do you grow crown vetch? Keep reading to learn more about this interesting plant.
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It’s a non-native invasive species. It can cause problems where it competes with native plants.
Snoop loves it
It’s a weed because it is an an invasive plant in many U.S. states due to its aggressive spread via seeds and rhizomes, which can form dense monocultures that outcompete native vegetation. It was introduced to the USA for erosion control. Only one state, Minnesota, classifies it as a “noxious weed.” Missouri, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Michigan keep an eye on it but haven’t classified it as “noxious” yet.
I love the word “noxious.” It needs to be applied more often to Democrats.
Speaking of noxious and Minnesota, there’s Tim Walz.
I planted crown vetch in my landscape many years ago and it quickly got out of control. It took me several years to finally get rid of it. If it wasn’t so invasive, it would be a nice groundcover.
Some farmers up in northern Nebraska used to plant it as a green manure as fixes nitrogen but its easier to fertilize then it is to plant it, take land out of use for a year & then have to disc it into the ground to get the benefit.
Crown vetch is evil and near impossible to control once established.
Any “gardener” encouraging its use for anything should be drawn, quartered, chopped into little pieces and those pieces jumped up and down upon by the tanners of Bombay.
Then those pieces should be properly punished!
I don’t like vetch of any sort, in any way.
You could say it’s (sorry) ve(tch)xatious
Rocks are a lot easier to maintain and control.
But for invasive plants I prefer ivy.
It is very invasive and spreads like crazy.
I’ve got some on our property and I’m fighting it CONSTANTLY.
A vacant ten acres was covered in it hip deep. I crossed it to measure it. Got about one hundred chigger bites.
Do deer eat it? Because I don’t want to invite any more than usual into my gardens.
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