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Fabaceae
Lentil
Vicia lens
Also known as Cicer lens, Lens culinaris, Red lentil, Ervum lens
Edibles & Herbs · Native Plants · Lentil · Legume · Edible · Cool-Season · Vegetable-Garden · Nitrogen-Fixer · Annual-Crop · Protein-Rich · Vicia · Food-Plant
Lentil is a cool-season legume best grown as an annual crop in full sun with well-drained, moderately fertile soil. Sow seeds directly outdoors after the last frost and support the trailing vines with low trellising or neighboring plants. Harvest pods when they begin to dry on the plant and allow seeds to fully dry before storage for best results.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 8 hours
- Watering
- Water regularly to keep soil evenly moist, especially during pod development; avoid waterlogging · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Moderate
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 7–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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