Phacelia (Phacelia)

Characteristics:

• Annual, hairy plant
• Leaves: finely structured, soft
• Stem: hollow, stable
• Height: up to 70 cm
• Flowers: white to light blue, in coiled spikes which uncoil during flowering
• Root: taproot, extending to a depth of 60-150 cm into the soil (primary and hair roots combined)
• Dies off at temperatures below -8 °C
• Fast juvenile development

Environmental needs:

• Good, fresh, well aerated soils
• Able to tolerate dry and acidic soils
• Needs warmth and moisture

Use:

• Popular catch crop
• Forage/silage in mixtures; no outstanding forage qualities

Green manure:

• Good weed suppressant
• Tilth improver
• Generates a good root system and good tilth
• Medium to good value as a forecrop
• Neutral crop rotation effect for full flexibility
• Avoided by pests
• Good bee forage

Function within TerraLife:       

• Deep rooting       
• Tilth improver
• Inorganically bound P-fixing  
• Mycorrhization-promoter
• Tap rooting
• Flowering

TerraLife mixtures:

• BioMax DT
• MaizePro DT
• N-Fixx
• Rigol DT
• BetaMaxx DT

DSV varieties:

• BEEHAPPY
• LISETTE