Has anyone tried growing Amaranth grain in your back yard? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
rob
Has anyone tried growing Amaranth grain in your back yard? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
rob
Thanks for the site. We are trying both this year.
Perhaps the old ways, old crops are best, eh?
We've had commercial quinoa and amaranth and we like both.
Charlie
Not yet, but we will be in late May.
I take heart from this...
If it works and we like it, I might try to pick up a garden allotment or two to let us expand our options next year and maybe try quinoa.
I had to think about this for a minute.
My answer is an unqualified yes to the former and to the latter, a yes to what I think you mean. That is, NA old crops are best for NA.
I am afraid that it is too late for me (northwest NC) to try quinoa this spring. I am thinking about planting in September. How long to maturity?
Yes to the former, but now I am not sure what *you* mean, in regards to the latter. What is NA?
Charlie, too easily cornfused
On Mon, 05 May 2008 09:35:43 -0500, The Cook wrote:
It looks like around a 100 days or so to maturity. I have a sea level variety to try, but I have no idea how this is going to work out, given that quinoa is generally a high altitude crop. If I don't get my butt in gear and get it planted, I'm not going to know this year either.
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Charlie
In this case North American and North America respectively.
I believe both the red root pigweed and lamb's quarter are types of amaranth. Both grow readily in my garden. The seeds of both are tasty IMHO. Steve
Just ducky, it already costs $750 worth of water to grow $150 worth of rice in the Central Valley, and we are already looking at water restrictions which will reduce our ability to grow our own crops.
What, back to the "Three Sisters"? That was subsistence agriculture and we would still have to go hunting. Include South America, with its' tomatoes and potatoes, Mediterranean herbs, and we can talk:-)
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