Use Phacelia as a green manure

What green manure is about

The name Green manure describes the actual processes involved in using certain types of plants as intermediate crops inadequately. It is true that in some cases nitrogen is bound and stored in the soil, but other side effects of cultivating green manure plants are also significant. For example, an inter-sowing like Phacelia:

• the floor with humus enriched
• the subsurface is secured and protected from silting up
• compacted earth effectively loosened up
• a foraging plant for bees required
• possible weed growth on fallow land suppressed

Grow Phacelia as a green manure

In recent years the so-called "bee friend" (Phacelia) is primarily due to the high nectar production in the many individual flowers is the focus of public interest moved. At the same time, the herbaceous plants that grow up to a meter high are also a pretty element in perennial beds or on slopes that are difficult to green. The white to light blue and violet-blue petals of the flowers can be used effectively for color contrasts with other garden plants. For the

sowing the comparatively cheap to get Seeds the selected spot in the flower or vegetable patch is simply cleared of other vegetation and lightly raked. The seeds are easily incorporated into the soil and should during the germination period be kept evenly moist.

The timing is crucial

When using Phacelia as a green manure, there may be a certain conflict of interest with its use as a Bee pasture result. This is due to the fact that the nitrogen content of these basically very rapidly growing plants steadily decreases up to the point of flowering. So you get the best effects for enriching the soil with nitrogen if you use the Mow the bee friend roughly before flowering and, after the leaf mass has dried, directly into the ground incorporate.