30 to 70 cm

• Use: melliferous; aftercrop; fodder
• Blooming time: June - August
• Vegetation form: annual
• Site: even lesser soils
• Weight: 10 kg
• full_description: The 'Natra' lacy phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) is an annual melliferous plant that blooms long and abundantly from June to August. 300 or even 700 kg of honey can be produced from one ha of culture. This plant stands out with exceptionally short vegetation period of 90 to 100 days. Lacy phacelia grows 30 to 70 centimetres tall and develops hairy leaves and light blue or purple flowers. The 'Natra' variety offered here is a great aftercrop, both when planted alone or mixed with mustard, serradella or lupin. It quickly develops and casts a shade over the ground what significantly impairs weed growth. Blue phacelia can also be grown for seeds. You can also cut it for green fodder that you feed directly to pigs and milk cattle. The silage made of lacy phacelia is also a great fodder for farm animals. You can also plough it into the field as green fertilizer that will supply the soil with organic matter, as well as substantial doses of nitrogen, potassium, and calcium. It is perfectly suited for lesser soils and wastelands that you wish to use again.
  
  The plant presented here is rather undemanding and will thrive in moderately moist and average soils. On the fertile ground, it develops long slender stems that tend to lodge. Lacy phacelia, blue tansy as it is also called, is resistant to periodical growth and frost down -10°C. It dies in the winter, though. Lacy phacelia seeds are tiny and require shallow seeding. The optimal seeding time when growing lacy phacelia for seeds is mid-spring. You can sow up to three times a season when growing the plant for silage. The seeding rate when growing blue tansy for seeds is 8 to 10 kg/ha and 10 to 15 kg/ha when growing the plant for silage or green fertilizer.
  
  One package contains 10 kg of the 'Natra' lacy phacelia seeds. The sow-by date has been printed on the package.