NEW! Hopi Red Dye
New For 2024!
Hopi Red Dye - Amaranthus cruentus - 70 days - 110 days for dried grain
All Amaranth's are edible and this one is no exception. You can eat the young leaves on salad, cook them as a pot herb, sauté the stems and eat the seeds as a grain. You can also enjoy them as micro-greens. Hopi Red Dye is spectacular in the garden with it's maroon red/purple leaves and long deep-red flowering tops.
Obviously it is a beloved dye plant as well.
This plant will reseed - even in the mountain garden but the higher you go, the less that will happen. Drought tolerant, adapted by the Hopi people in the southwest for too many generations to count!
Direct sow the seeds on the surface, they need light to germinate. Be sure to carefully press them in for good seed-to-soil contact. Keep them evenly moist through germination. They are easy to spot with their purple leaves.
Depending on conditions, this plant can grow 2'-7' tall. Give 2' between plants to see it's full glory or sow as a salad green and keep harvesting young leaves.
If you've never grown an Amaranth before - this is the one to try!