Fothergill's Phacelia Green Manure Tanacetifolia Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Phacelia tanacetifolia, an outstanding and quick-establishing soil improver.
• Plant Class: Hardy Annual, providing rapid and dense foliage growth to quickly blanket bare ground.
• Growth Habit: Reaches an upright height of 90cm (36in), producing an extensive root system that naturally breaks up heavy soil and improves drainage structure.
• Soil Protection: Shields vulnerable topsoil from heavy winter rains, efficiently preventing erosion and safeguarding essential nutrients from leaching away.
• Weed Suppressant: The dense, bushy green canopy quickly outcompetes and suppresses invasive, spreading weeds on fallow plots.
• Wildlife Friendly: Produces distinctive, nectar-rich purple flowers that are incredibly attractive to bees, hoverflies, and other beneficial garden insects.

Care & Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Position: Broadcast the seeds evenly over cleared, bare ground in a full sun position, raking lightly into the soil surface.
• Flexible Incorporation: Depending on your crop rotation, the green organic matter can be dug directly into the soil during summer, or left over winter to shield the ground and dug in the following spring. Always dig in before the plants fully set seed to maximise nutrient return.