Description: What an incredible edible ornamental! You can enjoy harvesting this plant as a micro or baby green or allow plants to mature and show off their dazzling red flowers in the garden. Garnet Red Amaranth holds up very well as a cut flower too.
Pack Size: 3.54 g (1/8 oz)
- General Info
- Germination
- Growing Info
- Growing Indoors
Latin Name: Amaranthus caudatus
Alternative Names: Love Lies Bleeding
Main Uses: Ornamental, Culinary
Zone Hardiness: 50 days to salad size
Exposure: Full sun
Height: 6 – 8′ tall
Flower Color: Bold red
Flowering Time: Summer
Germination: 7 – 14 days at 21°C.
Sowing: Indoors 4 – 6 weeks before last frost. 2 – 3 seeds per cell. For best results, apply Sea Magic™ kelp from first watering. Apply a seedling-starter fertilizer such as Evolve Seedling once the second set of true leaves has appeared, and then alternate between the kelp and seedling starter until transplant. Not well-suited for direct-seeding outdoors.
Planting depth: Lightly cover.
Planting Out: Plant in well-drained fertile soil (garden or container) once seedling are established and risk of frost has passed.
Notes: Tolerates poor soils.
Growing in Containers: Not well-suited to containers due to size.
Fertilizing (Garden): Plant in a garden bed amended with compost. No additional fertilizer is required.
Watering (Garden): Water deeply to establish. Water mature plants weekly during hot weather.
Garden Companions: Plant with sweet corn. The leaves of Love-Lies-Bleeding provide shade giving the corn a rich, moist root run. Host to predatory ground beetles. Young leaves are edible.
Special Requirements for Cold Climate Gardeners: May require staking.
Suitability for Indoors: Not suited for indoors.
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