Lentil Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Lens culinaris

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• Sowing Lentils: Cool Soil, Shallow Seed and How Thick to Sow
• Growing Lentils: Watering, Feeding and Keeping the Stand Upright
• Harvesting Lentils: Pulling the Whole Plant Before the Pods Shatter
• Drying and Threshing Lentils at Home After Harvest
• Lentil Growing Calendar: From Early Sowing to a Jar of Dry Seed
• Lentil Problems: Aphids, Root Rot, Lodging and Mold at Ripening

Pests and diseases (0)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.