Lentil

Lentil

Lens culinaris

Sow outdoors 1 week before your last spring frost. Space plants 1 in (3 cm) apart.

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When to plant

Timed from your frost dates, so it holds wherever you garden. Give yours and every step below becomes a date.

See the dates for your garden

Enter your average last spring frost and first fall frost. Every timing on this site turns into a calendar date. Not sure of yours? Your local extension service or a search for “last frost date” and your town will tell you; the app finds them from your location.

Last spring frost
First fall frost

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Optimal Direct Sow

From seedRecommended
  1. Sow outdoors1 week before your last spring frost
  2. First harvestabout 100 days after sowing

Growing lentil

Spacing in the row
1 in (3 cm)
Between rows
8 in (20 cm)
Planting depth
1-1.5 inches (up to 2.5 inches in dry soil)
Sun
Full Sun
Life cycle
Annual

Feeding

How often
Rarely: lentils fix their own nitrogen. Inoculate the seed where legumes have not grown before; added nitrogen only makes the root bacteria fix less.

Your lentil, planned to the day.

Canopy turns these timings into dates from your own frost data, places every plant at its spacing on your garden map, and tracks it all the way to harvest.

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