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A source for hairy-vetch seeds in the UK??

Posted by vivek.m 11 - Bangalore, Indi (My Page) on
Sat, Oct 20, 07 at 12:28

Hello, my aunt will be visiting India in Jan and has promised to get me some Hairy Vetch/Alfalfa seeds IF i can find a source for them in the UK.

She has asked at her gardening shop and i have checked the online catalogues at Chiltern, Thompson and Morgan and The RHS. I also e-mailed Chiltern and another online web site asking them if they could recommend someone. Both replied in the negative. My Aunt lives near Uxbridge and she isn't going to wade through a directory and do a lot of running around :(

EBay has it but she doesn't have a PayPal account and I'll only be able to ship microscopic quantities. Could someone suggest a place which is likely to have the Vetch seeds with inoculum (Rhizobium-leguminosarum-type-C).

(Also asked on Yahoo Answers, but the reply was vague)


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RE: A source for hairy-vetch seeds in the UK??

As far as I can tell, hairy vetch and alfalfa are not the same plant.
If you want alfalfa (Medicago sativa), it is quite widely available as seeds for sprouting, and as green manure. T&M do stock it, as do Suffolk Herbs. It's probably better value to buy it as green manure though.

Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa) seems to be more difficult to track down


 
 

 

 


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