Description

Bush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds\n\nBush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds is an open pollinated variety - summer-growing annual or occasionally short-lived perennial forage legume. It has a deep taproot and vigorous, glabrous or pubescent trailing stems.\n\nBush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds leaves are alternate and trifoliolate. The leaflets are rhomboid in shape, 7.5-15 cm long x 8-14 cm broad, acute at the apex. The upper surface is smooth while the underside has short hairs. Inflorescences are many-flowered racemes borne on elongated peduncles. The flowers are white to blue or purple in colour, about 1.5 cm long, typically papillonaceous in shape.\n\nBush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds fruits are linear, 4-15 cm long x 1-4 cm broad, smooth and beaked pods that contain between 2 and 8 seeds.\n\nBush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds is a multipurpose legume. Its immature seeds and pods, and young leaves are edible and cooked as vegetables. Mature dry beans are edible but they require prolonged cooking with several changes of water.\n\nHow to grow: Dibble single seed 30 cm apart on one side of the ridge formed at a spacing of 60 cm for bush type.\n\nFor pandal type sow 2 - 3 seeds/pit at 2 x 3 m spacing. Spacing for this Dolichos beans is 1 x 1 m.\n\nBush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds can be grown throughout the year; Climbing type can be grown during July – August.

Pros and cons

• Guaranteed Authenticity: Every seed & bulb is hand-selected & verified to be true-to-variety native & open-pollinated.
• Strong Resilient Growth: Traditional varieties bred over generations for hardiness adaptability & natural resistance.
• Supports a Larger Cause: Every purchase supports small farmers & helps conserve endangered native seed varieties.
• Seed-Saving Ready: Being non-hybrid you can save seeds from your harvest & grow the same variety again next season.
• Premium Pricing: Sourcing rare native genetics directly from small farmers plus manual quality checks costs more than mass-market hybrid seeds.
• Limited & Seasonal Stock: Because many varieties are rare & grown in small batches stock is limited & can sell out before the season peaks.
• Slightly More Care Needed: Native & heirloom varieties may need more attentive growing conditions than common commercial hybrids.
• Longer Dispatch on Some Items: Certain rare or seasonal varieties may take longer to source & dispatch than always-in-stock products.