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Water Spinach कलमी साग

Ipomoea aquatica

Sowing months

Mar–Apr, Jun–Aug

Sunlight

Five hours of sun

Water

Waterlogged is ideal

Mature size

Trailing 1–2 m

First harvest

Cut from week five

Family

Convolvulaceae

Where it grows

balcony, ground, terrace

Good for

food

Sow in

monsoon, summer

Care

Grow it in a tub of wet soil with 5 cm standing water on top.

Grows on water or wet mud and crops every fortnight through the monsoon.

Growing it

Grow it in a tub of wet soil with 5 cm standing water on top.

What it is for

Kalmi saag and thoran; the most productive monsoon green there is.