Red Amaranth (Amaranthus acruentus

Red Amaranth is a large,beautiful  plant that creates lovely flowers, and it can do double duty in the garden as a decorative and edible plant and will attract  beneficial pollinators to the garden.

As an edible crop,amaranth  produces  both grains and green for eating. The  burgundy seeds' heads produce  nutritious  grain that is  rich in fiber, iron, and protein. The  leaves can be harvested to eat ,being most  tender at the young stage, more  flavorful as they mature. Amaranth  seeds are also well suited to sprouting as microgreens.

Spring sowing.