Post by blueadzuki on Apr 11, 2017 7:50:43 GMT -5
Hi all,
This year I am trying to be a bit better about getting more of my saved up "this might be interesting" seed into the ground. To that end I was going through my "saved a bit" box and noticed that one tube had some odd lentils I had saved back when I was going through all of those bags of them, and that that might be fun to play around with.
But since I am dealing with such a small amount (and the web does not seed to be helping me much) I wanted to check here if anyone knows whether lentils are a spring crop (i.e. something I should be putting in the ground now, when the frosts have just ended for the season) a summer crop (so I should wait until it is warmer) or a totally winter crop (in which case I should not bother in the first place, as they will need the kind of weather I have in the early spring for several months, which I know will not have).
I seem to recall one or two lentils sneaking though and showing up when I planted the vetches the last two years, which would indicate "spring" (same as the vetches) But conformation would be helpful.
Please not that we are talking about a VERY small amount of seed (probably less than 20 total) with a VERY high amount of diversity (i.e. no two seeds are usually even CLOSE to each other in appearance and, one would assume, genetics) so ideas like "plant half now and half later" are not really going to fly. Neither is anything involving much use of cold frames (don't have one, or anywhere to put one) or greenhouses (again, don't have one) And my windowsills are already getting sort of full of pots.
This year I am trying to be a bit better about getting more of my saved up "this might be interesting" seed into the ground. To that end I was going through my "saved a bit" box and noticed that one tube had some odd lentils I had saved back when I was going through all of those bags of them, and that that might be fun to play around with.
But since I am dealing with such a small amount (and the web does not seed to be helping me much) I wanted to check here if anyone knows whether lentils are a spring crop (i.e. something I should be putting in the ground now, when the frosts have just ended for the season) a summer crop (so I should wait until it is warmer) or a totally winter crop (in which case I should not bother in the first place, as they will need the kind of weather I have in the early spring for several months, which I know will not have).
I seem to recall one or two lentils sneaking though and showing up when I planted the vetches the last two years, which would indicate "spring" (same as the vetches) But conformation would be helpful.
Please not that we are talking about a VERY small amount of seed (probably less than 20 total) with a VERY high amount of diversity (i.e. no two seeds are usually even CLOSE to each other in appearance and, one would assume, genetics) so ideas like "plant half now and half later" are not really going to fly. Neither is anything involving much use of cold frames (don't have one, or anywhere to put one) or greenhouses (again, don't have one) And my windowsills are already getting sort of full of pots.
