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RE: Fighting Weeds with Weeds - Best Cover Crops [Gardening]
Just a heads up:
Vicia spp. aka Common Vetch, Hairy Vetch, Narrow leafed vetch, purple vetch, broad beans is poisonous to chickens, horses, humans. The seeds contain beta-cyano-L-alanine.
From Cornell: http://poisonousplants.ansci.cornell.edu/php/plants.php?action=display&ispecies=horses
I have used white clover for cover crop, but avoided the vetch as there are chickens and horses in the immediate area.
Thanks for the heads up. The article I read said only Crown Vetch is poisonous to animals.
I figured Cornell University would be a good source, so that's why I put the link in. I'd heard the vetch was poisonous here in New England off and on, but someone posted the link to Cornell's site recently.