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Common vetch is a fast-growing climbing annual vine with delicate purple, pink, or blue flowers and fine pinnate foliage. It is commonly used as a cover crop and nitrogen-fixing legume in agricultural systems.

Companion Planting

Plants well with

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C

chili pepper

Capsicum annuum

As a nitrogen-fixing legume, common vetch enriches the soil when grown as an interplanting or cover crop near peppers.

Traditional

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