Gardening
Related: About this forumBring out your amaranths!

I don't really know why this one got so tall.
I transplanted it out of the pepper bed which had some composted manure in it, into a hole with some pine needles and dirt I scooped up beside the house.
None of the others come close. Still going today, in D.C./Md. area.


rampartd
(2,609 posts)they grew well and i have a bunch of seeds from them. do you have any recipes?
bigtree
(92,979 posts)...let me know what you find.
markodochartaigh
(4,298 posts)seeds from that one!
bigtree
(92,979 posts)...generational strength, mehopes.
WestMichRad
(2,703 posts)
once.
It crossed with the native pigweed, a weed in our garden. Now we have purple leaved amaranth (pigweed) as a weed every year. Its easy to identify, as its purplish red, even as a small seedling.
Grew some to maturity this year so we could harvest some of the seed to experiment with it as a natural dye.
So Ill have plenty of purple weeds in our garden, probably forever!
...pigweed was 'redroot' Amaranthus retroflexus, maybe?
WestMichRad
(2,703 posts)But Im not sure which one.
I learned it as pigweed, but maybe thats not the commonly accepted name for it.
questionseverything
(11,316 posts)Because I got to learn about a super food too!
GreenWave
(11,771 posts)...gonna do some conjurin'