What Are Desmodium Plants - How To Grow A Desmodium Plant

1. How do you grow desmodium?
2. What is desmodium used for?
3. What are the steps to grow a plant?
4. Is desmodium a legume?
5. What is desmodium grass?
6. How do Lucerne grow in Kenya?

How do you grow desmodium?

Drill the seed into shallow furrows 2.5 cm deep spaced at 30 cm or 50 cm; cover with little soil. For intercropping with Napier grass, make furrows between or along the Napier rows and drill desmodium seed and fertilizer mixture in the furrows. Use mature parts of desmodium vines. Use freshly cut vines.

What is desmodium used for?

Greenleaf desmodium is mainly used as a fodder legume. It can be grazed as a long-term pasture, cut and offered fresh in cut-and-carry systems, or cut from irrigated pastures for conservation as hay or silage.

What are the steps to grow a plant?

How do plant grow step by step?

1. Put the soil into the pot.
2. Then put sunflower seed into the pot.
3. Take a pot or any container.
4. Fill the pot with soil mixture. ...
5. Put the seed (e.g sunflower) into the pot and cover with additional soil.
6. Water it a bit(sprinkle).
7. Put the pot in an open area (balcony/portico).

Is desmodium a legume?

Desmodium is a trailing or climbing perennial legume with small leaves and deep roots which, in favourable conditions, forms very dense ground cover. Desmodium is popular in cut-and-carry systems. There are numerous varieties of desmodium but the two most common are the green leafed and the silver leafed ones.

What is desmodium grass?

Desmodium is a large perennial tropical forage legume. It does better at altitudes between 500 and 2500 m in the tropics. It grows well on slopes. It can be grown in areas where annual rainfall is above 900 mm and up to 3000 mm.

How do Lucerne grow in Kenya?

Use certified seeds to sow on rows 45cm apart on a fine, moist and weed free seedbed at a rate of 3 – 4kg per acre. The soils should be deep and well drained. Avoid any soils that are saline, waterlogged or have damaging herbicides.