Niger (Guizotia abyssinica)

Characteristics:

• Leaves: lanceolate, serrated or margins entire
• Height: up to 1.8 m
• Flowers: yellow, 2-3 heads stand together
• Root: Taproot with lateral roots, up to 30 cm deep

 

Environmental needs:

• No special claims
• pH value 5.3 to 7.3
• Sensitive to frost

 

Use:

• Catch crop

 

Green manure:

• Susceptible to Rhizoctonia and Sclerotinia → keep care of position in crop rotations
• Weed suppression
• Dies off reliably with frost
• Biomass rots easily (dark coloured)

Function within TerraLife:

• Dry germinating
• Shallow rooting
• Tilth improver
• Mycorrhization-promoter
• Epigeogenous rhizome

 

TerraLife mixtures:

• BetaMaxx DT
• BetaSola
• MaizePro DT
• N-Fixx
• SolaRigol DT