Sunhemp / Sunn hemp - Crotalaria Juncea - Green Manure Poppy Finely flavoured carrot does well

Finely flavoured carrot does well as a bunching carrot and as a storage carrot

with apple blossom flowers on long trusses and deep red

Sometimes they have dark

6m with broad channelled dark leaves in large clusters with many white spots on lower surface and salmon-pink flowers with greenish tips

It is found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics

Sunhemp / Sunn hemp - Crotalaria Juncea - Green Manure Poppy Finely flavoured carrot does wellSunn hemp, Crotalaria juncea L. is popular as a green manure in many tropical and subtropical areas in the world as an organic nitrogen source. Sunn hemp suppresses weeds, slows soil erosion, and reduces root knot nematode populations. When ploughed under at early bloom stage, nitrogen recovery is the highest. Under optimum growing conditions sunn hemp can produce 134 to 147 lb acre of nitrogen (N) and 3 tons acre air dry organic matter at 60 days of