WoollyPod Vetch: Spring vs. Fall Planting & the Power of Vertical Structure

0:00 A little bit of wooly pot back here. Volunteer cry and triticale back there. Wooly pod match is a spring annual so.

0:14 Again we would not typically plant it in the fall expecting it's over the winter. The section right in here it did very.

0:20 Well as you move south it acts as a winter annual so it's every bit as good as hairy back in Australia New Zealand.

0:28 Baby they commonly is if a woolly pod batch is a spring annual so when its spring planted this will grow faster and.

0:36 Bloom quicker than any of the other patches when it's fall planted like this. You can see it's kind of behind the.

0:42 Hairy vetch in it as far as where it's blooming, but if it's a spring planted, this would be ahead of that, so if you're

0:49 A further south this is going to be a better choice or if you're doing a spring plant woolly pod batches is a.

1:05 Plants and you give them something to climb you can I mean you get the trellis effect where

1:13 You know if you have vets growing by itself it just makes a mat basically you get one acre of leaves on one acre of.

1:21 Ground if you give it something to climb, you get this corrugated canopy where you can get two or three acres of leaves on.

1:31 An acre ground that's one of the real beauties of having diversity in your mix and having tall plants binding plants and so forth. And you can see this vetch taking advantage of the structure of the rye here and the triticale. You've got more leaves here on the acre and so that's the same phenomenon is also happening below ground and it's hard to observe obviously what's happening below ground when you're standing above ground but trust me it's better.