Phacelia LILLA (coated)

Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth.

A rapidly growing phacelia for honeybees, green manure, and erosion control

  • Good cover crop, can control weeds
  • Honey plant for bees
  • Good green mass yield (up to 25-30 t/ha)
  • Very effective part of a crop rotation cycle
  • 1 000 seed weight – 2.0 g

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam

The advantages of coated seeds:
  • Allows more precisely to incorporate small size seeds with low sowing rate
  • Protect seed from mechanic stress caused by sowing machines
  • Protect seed from birds and insects - in fact coating components are not toxic but they don’t even attract them
  • The extra-resistance of the coating avoids dust leakage and dust accumulation in the sowing machine
  • Have less hard-seed content which means higher immediate germination percentage on the establishment of crop

Recommended sowing rate: 16 kg/ha, depth – 1-2 cm

Recommended sowing rate when growing for green manure: 16-20 kg/ha