Purple Dolichos LabLab Gardening Seeds is a summer-growing annual or occasionally short-lived perennial forage legume. It is a twining, climbing,... Read more
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Purple Dolichos LabLab Gardening Seeds is a summer-growing annual or occasionally short-lived perennial forage legume. It is a twining, climbing, trailing or upright herbaceous plant that can grow to a length of 3-6 m. It has a deep taproot and vigorous, glabrous or pubescent trailing stems. Lablab leaves are alternate and trifoliolate.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe flowers are white to blue or purple in colour, about 1.5 cm long, typically papillonaceous in shape. Lablab fruits are linear, 4-15 cm long x 1-4 cm broad, smooth and beaked pods that contain between 2 and 8 seeds. Lablab is a multipurpose legume. Its immature seeds and pods, and young leaves are edible and cooked as vegetables.\n\nMature 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. For pandal type sow 2 - 3 seeds/pit at 2 x 3 m spacing.\n\nSpacing for this Dolichos beans is 1 x 1 m. Bush type can be grown throughout the year; Climbing type can be grown during July – August.
Give your seeds the best start! Soak larger seeds like beans, gourds and okra in water for 6–8 hours before sowing to soften the seed coat and speed up germination. For tiny seeds like herbs and greens, skip soaking and instead keep the soil consistently moist until sprouts appear.
