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Phacelia has beautiful, fast-growing purplish flowers, harbors beneficial insects and attracts bees.
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The phacelia has pretty, fast-growing purplish flowers, shelters beneficial insects and attracts bees.
Family: Hydrophyllaceae
Latin name : Phacelia tanacetifolia Bentham
Genus type : reproducible seeds
Weight : 30 g
Sowing and harvesting schedule:
Soil care: very good ground cover, suitable for poor and heavy soil.
Exposure: sunny.
Sowing: broadcast, at a rate of 100 g per 100 m2
Emergence : 10 to 20 days.
Watering: Water well until emergence
Use: grownas a green manure, phacelia is a very good ground cover that smothers weeds.
Its very fragrant flowers attract bees but also many useful insects to the garden because they limit the development of insect pests, such as the carabid or the hoverfly which eat aphids.
It is useful in the crop rotation, because it does not belong to any vegetable family. It stops the cycle of certain diseases.
Origin: native of the north of Mexico and the south of the United States, it was introduced in Europe in 1832 for its melliferous qualities.
Advice from La Semence Bio ®: the culture of green manure is very useful in the organic garden for four good reasons:
1. Maintaining soil fertility;
2. Improving the soil structure;
3. The increase of the microbial life of the soil;
4. Controlling weeds.
