Sowing months
Mar, Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
Weekly
Mature size
Bush or vine to 2 m
First harvest
Fifty days
Family
Fabaceae
Where it grows
ground, terrace
Good for
food
Sow in
monsoon, summer
Care
Sow after the first real rain and it needs nothing else.
Pods, beans and green manure from one undemanding monsoon plant.
Growing it
Sow after the first real rain and it needs nothing else.
What it is for
Lobia beans and pods; dig the haulm in as green manure.