GO VETCH
There is a wild vine with delicate lavender flowers that has just gone nuts on our property this year. We've never really noticed it before, but now we're seeing it all over Dripping Springs. Putting on our best investigative reporter's hat, we grabbed a handful before dinner with friends. Some time between appetizers and entrees, we waved the mystery vine in front of our smart landscaper friend and asked "what's this?". We immediately learned it is vetch, a good nitrogen provider for the soil and horses like it.
Finally, on our exhaustive investigation trail, we emailed our smart wildlife biologist friends and asked "so, what's up with vetch?". That is when we learned that it has been a bumper year for vetch. Vetch or "Deer Pea Vetch" is a legume that is high in protein and great for deer and other herbivores who eat the leaves and seeds.
Vetch blooms from March to May.
Vetch in Dripping Springs, Texas.
Finally, on our exhaustive investigation trail, we emailed our smart wildlife biologist friends and asked "so, what's up with vetch?". That is when we learned that it has been a bumper year for vetch. Vetch or "Deer Pea Vetch" is a legume that is high in protein and great for deer and other herbivores who eat the leaves and seeds.
Vetch blooms from March to May.
Vetch in Dripping Springs, Texas.
Posted by DSBabble.com at Tuesday, April 27, 2010 8:22 AM 
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I like to use the little 'pea' seedpods as tiny snow peas for little doll tea parties.
Soon is the time to begin collecting seed...the pods are beginning to dry at my place!
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