Including peas, alfalfa and vetch, legumes are among the most versatile and nutrient rich pasture crops available. Outsidepride.com offers some of the more popular legumes often used for wildlife, forage, pastures or cover crops.
This legume is very good for cover crops or green manure crops and since Austrian winter peas build tilth they add organic matter and thus humus to the soil.
Primarily used as ground cover for hillside erosion plantings in areas where mowing is difficult or impossible Crown vetch produces fairly attractive flowers during the seasonal blooming period.
Hairy vetch is a hardy, viny, annual or biennial legume, attaining a height of 24 inches when planted alone and higher when planted with a tall companion crop that provides structural support for climbing.