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Fabaceae
Bengal gram
Cicer arietinum
Also known as Chickpea, Garbanzo bean, Egyptian pea, Cicer arietinum var. album
Edibles & Herbs · Native Plants · Chickpea · Legume · Edible · Vegetable · Nitrogen-Fixing · Food Crop · Annual Crop · Pulse · Companion Planting · Drought-Hardy
Bengal gram (chickpea) is a warm-season legume that grows best in full sun with well-drained soil and moderate, consistent watering. It fixes nitrogen in the soil, making it a great companion plant for a vegetable garden, and requires minimal fertilization as a result. Harvest pods when they turn dry and papery for dried chickpeas, or pick earlier for fresh green use.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water deeply to encourage deep root growth, allowing the top inch of soil to dry between waterings · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Moderate
- Cycle
- Perennial
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Spacing
- 12 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Flowers
- No
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Alabama, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Austria, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is.
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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