Growing Lamb's Quarters | How to Grow Bathua
21.06.2023 - 08:41
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Lamb’s Quarters is a hugely underrated, healthy, and delicious vegetable. It is a storehouse of magnesium, potassium, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, fiber, and various other nutrients. In India, Lamb’s Quarters is famous by the name ‘Bathua,’ and the people cultivate and consume it as a food crop. Let’s have a look at all the details on Growing Lamb’s Quarters easily.
Botanical Name: Chenopodium Album
Other Names: Wild Spinach, Allgood, Melde, Fat-Hen, Pigweed, Manure Weed, Goosefoot, Bathua, Cheel bhaaji, and White Goosefoot.
Growing the plant from seeds is as easy as it can get. You can directly sow them in the garden or pot at any time of the year. Also, this plant does best alongside potatoes, corn, and cucurbits.
Lamb’s Quarters is an easygoing plant and does well in both sun and indirect light. If you are growing it in containers, you can easily keep the pot in a balcony or patio.
Lamb’s Quarters can be planted in light (sandy), medium (loamy) as well as heavy (clay) soils. However, the plant is not too picky about the medium and can do well in regular garden soil too.
Water the plant regularly but avoid overwatering. It is best to follow the ‘let the topsoil dry between waterings’ method to make sure it thrives.
It is quite a versatile plant and can tolerate a broad range of climates and temperatures ranging from 41-86 °F (5-30°C).
In India, which is the largest cultivator of Bathua, the plant flourishes in the months of monsoon and winter. It dies back in summer. If you live in a cold region, it can be grown as annual. For tropics, growing it in winters will be best.
If you are using a quality potting mix, then you don’t have to fertilize the plant at all! For the garden, just add manure or compost at the time of growing.
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