Striking and attractive blossom
Benefits:
- High yielding honey plant, can be used specifically for filling the bee forage gap
- Particularly suitable as a blend component
- Leaves a dark and fine-stemmed mulch layer in the spring which is easy to till and promote soil warming
- Additional organic substance stabilizes humus content
- Unlock organically bound phosphorus
- ANGELIA convinced because of the modesty and high draught tolerance
- Neutral plant for Beet Cyst Nematodes and Club root - suitable for sugar beet and oilseed rape crop rotations
Included in blends: viterra® BIENE, viterra® BIENE ECO, viterra® BIENE ECO 2.1, viterra® BIENE PLUS, viterra® BODENGARE, viterra® BODENGARE ÖKO, viterra® DEPOT ÖKO, viterra® HORRIDO, viterra® MAIS, viterra® MAIS N-PLUS, viterra® MAIS STRUKTUR, viterra® MULTIKULTI, viterra® N
Variety characteristics:
(Officially confirmed or respectively in line with Bundessortenamt)
| Initial mass formation: |
6 |
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| Tendency to flower: |
5 |
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| Stiffness: |
5 |
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bad / early / short / low
good / late / long / high
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Crop rotation suitability:
| Maize |
++ |
| Cereals |
++ |
| Oilseed rape |
++ |
| Sugar beets |
+ |
| Potatoes |
|
| Intensive crops |
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| Legumes |
+ |
| + suitable / ++ strongly recommended |
Usage:
- Humus formation
- Protection against erosion
- Ground water protection / Nitrogen conservation
- Pollinator attractiveness
- Green manure
Agronomic features:
| Weed suppression: |
7 |
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| Protection against erosion: |
7 |
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| Ground water protection / Nitrogen conservation: |
6 |
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| Humus formation: |
5 |
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| Cold- and frost resistance: |
1 |
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| Drought tolerance: |
8 |
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| Budding ability: |
4 |
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bad / early / short / low
good / late / long / high
|
| Type of root |
Tuft root |
| Rooting depth |
80 cm |
Cultivation recommendations:
| Recommended sowing rate |
10 - 12 kg/ha |
| Sowing depth |
2 cm |
| Sowing period |
April to September - depending on location! |
| Fertilization |
40 - 60 kg N/ha |
| Crop protection |
Usually there is no plant protection required |
| Sowing method |
Drill seeds in a dry, finely crumbled seedbed |
15.08.2025 12:11:28 // 20.00 - Breeder: P. H. Petersen Saatzucht Lundsgaard GmbH
