Green Manure Phacelia Tanacetifolia

Description

Green Manure Phacelia Tanacetifolia

Green Manure Phacelia Tanacetifolia. An inter-crop bushy plant with bright blue flowers, perfect as a Nitrogen fixer and much loved by beas and insects alike. A hardy annual it gives good ground cover and establishes dense foliage quickly for digging in prior to flowering. (500gm packet is suitable for approximately 160 square metres)

Cultivation Advice 

• Sow from Mar through to end of Aug.
• Scatter thinly and lightly rake in to prepared area.
• The plants will flower from 60 days after sowing in warm ideal conditions and continue for a further 2-3 weeks.
• The crop is best dug in prior to the plants setting seed if used as green manure.
• If sown to attract beneficial insects leave in flower as long as possible.
• For late autumn sown seed, the plants will not set seed until the following season and can be left in over winter
• They may well die in the coldest weather, simply leave to cover the soil and dig in during spring