Margaret options in The Survival Gardener neighborhood:

I’ve an amaranth story. Two years beforehand I bought an amaranth seedling merely to see the way in which during which it did. Correctly it grew about two ft tall, was stuffed with holes from some insect and ultimately it merely went into the compost pile. Plenty of month beforehand I topped off a yard mattress with compost from that bin research this out:

That’s epic.

Amaranth really likes damaged flooring, and when it self-seeds it might be fairly vigorous.

It’s furthermore amusing that the seeds obtained proper right here by the use of the compost pile. In my expertise, it’s fairly frequent to have seeds survive composting, even while you try to compost “the appropriate technique” by scorching composting. Seeds are good at surviving, and boy do they love compost.

Now we now have purple amaranth all through this 12 months, since some went to seed final 12 months and left seeds in our gardens, in our potting soil, and all by the plant nursery. It’s okay – they’re fairly. They usually’re masses increased than their spiny pigweed cousin.

Seeing Margaret’s runaway amaranth makes me wish to throw seeds everywhere inside the meals forest and see what occurs subsequent spring. Daisy has the purple kind out there in the marketplace in her seed retailer already – and I’ve some golden giant that shall be nice to throw out there in the marketplace as correctly.