If you want to reap a bountiful harvest of vegetables next year, make sure they have loose soil at their disposal.
To do this, after harvesting vegetables, you should sow the beds with a plant that will help increase the fertility of the soil.
If you haven't guessed yet what we're talking about, here's the answer - it's phacelia.
According to most gardeners, phacelia is the best option for sowing beds for the winter, firstly, because it is a frost-resistant plant, and secondly, because it brings great benefits to the garden.
Which one exactly? The answer is simple: this green manure crop makes the soil loose, light and fertile, and also saturates it with nitrogen and potassium and can even reduce the acidity of the beds.
In addition, phacelia has herbicidal properties, that is, the ability to inhibit the growth of weeds.
And yet, the main advantage of phacelia is that it does not suffer from the same diseases as garden crops.
Phacelia is planted in the soil during the period of active flowering, until seeds begin to form.
Please note: It is not recommended to use fresh grass, it is better to let it dry in the sun to avoid rotting.
For reference
Phacelia is a genus of plants in the family Hydrophyllaceae, previously classified as Boraginaceae, and comprising 186 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants that grow in North and South America.
