Hi heathen1,

I grew lentils last year.Seeds were planted little late in the summer, still the plants developed some pods.I received some seeds in exchange for Jasmine plant.I have planted some this year too. Plants are foot tall at this time.
Lentils are grown year round in India.Planted in monsoon gets ready in winter and planted in spring gets ready in summer.
Now a days seeds for short time crops are available.The type I have planted are 60 day kind.
Since yours are flowering, I hope you will harvest some pods.
You may have to GOOGLE to locate a short time variety of the seeds.
Good Luck

Thank you! Did you dry the lentils on the plant? A foot tall... that's as tall as mine are, are they supposed to get taller? I didn't expect them to do well, so I didn't put them on a trellis.

I did not dry them on the plant.We use the green seeds as vegetable.
Plants grew to a height of about three feet last year.
Plants will not need trells.

i planted my blue puy lentils in spring and got a reasonable crop. I have read some agricultural notes and there was a lively discussion as to whether spring or autumn sown lentils give the larger yield. Autumn/late summer plantings were found to have the greater yield. I will still plant in spring, because the animals, possums usually break into my vegetable enclosure when the weather starts to cool

Helen

I posted this question on lentils over on the Asian Veggie forum but maybe I should have started here:

I grew lentils so many years ago that itÂs difficult to remember but what I do recall is that the plants were tiny, tiny things and production was so limited it was simply embarrassing. I imagine that the lentil seed was from the supermarket.

Are there larger varieties which make some sense to grow in a garden?. Not far away, there are some acres of lentils grown commercially. I doubt if the variety is very appropriate for a gardener but not sure. It is encouraging to me that this area apparently is appropriate for the crop.

So, does anyone with experience growing lentils have a suggestion as to seed choice?

Steve

Well, after a little looking around - I can see that my question could be confusing.

I am referring to, Lens culinaris.

Thank you in advance,

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