loaded with vitamins and minerals amaranth greens are not only extremely
healthy but also very delicious
unlike other green leafy vegetables like spinach which are cool season crops
amaranth actually grows well and warm to hot weather now it's extremely hot it
might go to bolt so you can sow amaranth seeds early spring or in the fall
season and as long as you don't have extremely cold temperatures amarant will
sprout very quickly and grow into some healthy plants so the potting mix that
were using here is a 30% peat moss 30% compost and 30% perlite
with some worm castings and you can see here after two weeks the
plants have emerged very well and what you need to do now is transplant these
seedlings into another container or your raised beds
so in this case we're going to be transplanting are seedlings into our raised bed
so we're going to pick our healthiest plants
and then transplant them into the raised beds just like that
and as you can see here we can grow a lot of amaranth in this raised bed
this is a 4'x4' raised bed
you can see I'm growing about 30 plants or so in this raised bed
and as you can see here the plant looks very healthy now
amaranth doesn't really require any fertilizers as long as you have a lot of
good organic material in your soil amaranth greens will grow very well and
produce these nice-looking leaves this is the red leaf amaranth and both the
leaves as well as the seeds of the amaranth plant are edible and the
seeds just like quinoa are very high in protein and tastes like true grains and
the leaves are very much edible as well and after 40 days of sowing we're
going to be harvesting our greens are amaranth greens and to harvest them
just snip the top part of the plant and what will happen is after your harvest
the plant will send out more shoots from the sides and your amaranth plant will
keep growing into a bigger plant
so as you can see here these leaves look beautiful
there are a lot of leaves that are growing here now some of your leaves
might have a green color and that's perfectly fine it's just a different of
variety of a plant but it's stil amaranth and as you can see here these leaves look
beautiful they are large leaves and the leaves are also very nutritious
they're mostly used in stirred fries and soups amaranth leaves are also a great
source of vitamins and minerals they are rich in calcium iron potassium and
magnesium and it's also gluten-free so for those of you were looking for a
gluten-free alternative amaranth leaves and amaranth seeds are a great option
and amaranth also has some other medicinal properties
it lowers your cholesterol
it's known to be good for your heart
and it has anti-inflammatory properties
and it's great if you have aching and inflamed muscles
it's also rich in antioxidants and it improves immunity
and amaranth leaves were traditionally eaten for easier digestion
so it's also said to improve your digestion
so a lot of good health benefits in amarantth so you might want
to include it as a part of your diet for good health amaranth is also very high in
fiber so it's a good addition if you want to increase the fiber in your diet
and amaranth seeds are also a good source of protein
so all in all this is a great plant and some people call it a superfood because
it's very nutrition dense it provides a lot of vitamins and minerals and there
we have it folks that was our episode on growing the red amaranth plant and i hope
you give it a shot it's very nutritious and it's very delicious and you might
also like watching some of our other videos to your left we have a video on
growing two spinach varieties
and on the right we have another video on growing amaranth and i hope you like
these two videos we'll see you again soon happy gardening