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[Alexander Brands <abb7@Lehigh.EDU>]

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> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:31:23 -0500 (EST)
> From: Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
> Subject: [nafex] Can someone recommend a cover crop: annual,
>         low-growing, flowering, will spread, will grow in wood-chip mulch
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> Can someone recommend a cover crop that fit's these conditions:
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> It's an annual
> It's low-growing
> Will spread within the growing season
> Will grow in wood-chip mulch (that has begun to break down)
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> Thanks,
> Steve (NJ)

I've had good luck with hairy vetch.  Not sure how low growing you  
want, vetch gets maybe a foot tall as it sprawls about.  It is annual,  
but self seeds here in Pennsylvania.  Bees like the flowers, and it  
fixes nitrogen.

Alex

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