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yes, there's an ornamental variety known as 'Love Lies Bleeding', it has a long droopy red flower spike and leaves with a red love-heart shape on them
do this plants have a flower? (they look like the plants, that people use for inside plants?) very pretty plant anyhow.
thanks addy. I'm on to it!
Yes, I often "tip" the plants - about 15cm is good - and lots of side shoots come up. i've had mine bush up to a metre high!
do you think if i chopped of the top of the plants, anout 15cm off where the majority of the seeds are, it would grow into a bushier plant with more leaves? Or is it too far gone and i just have to wait for the next generation?
i love this stuff!!!
Lol, I said not to let self seed... checked my own and seeds everywhere!!! Have collected seed and pulled but think that one will now be known as amaranth bed...
If yo come this way, Cass, I'd give you some seeds... and seedlings, I've got them all over the place!
I either have all red or asia red amaranth. maybe we could swap seeds?
This is what I grow and eat - first picture at the top -
http://www.evergreenseeds.com/edamyintsach.html
Sometimes they go to seed quite quickly, I find that's when it hasn't been watered, or not in good soil... also in winter.
how can you tell if you have the grain type or the leaf type. mine has gone to seedbut they are very small. I may have got them from geen harvest. Are the amaranth grain as big as wheat grain or smaller?
Just to confirm then Cass, you have Addy's which is the leaf variety...
Cass, I cook it even more simply than that - just boil the leaves and peeled stems in a bit of flavoured stock then add coconut powder and fish sauce, if you like it spicy, add some sambal or chopped chillies. I also like it as a soup - increase the…
will do. thanks for the tip. i'm eating it now. it cooks down to nothing so it's hard to imagin having too much.
have fun on Saturday.
cheers
Wow that's great Cass! I have a couple of plants that were given to me by Betty & Bob, they are seeding at the moment but are in full shade so not very big... I will try them in another bed when I collect the seeds I think.
BTW, Anthony doesn't lik…
If you're coming to Roma Street tomorrow Sat 5th, I will have some red Amaranth seeds. Supposed to be the 'leaf' rather than the 'seed' variety which I got from City Farm. I have not yet tried the leaves, since it's growing in an inhospitable place…
The garden is on its way! The best vegetable thus far has been Amaranth. I've heard loads of good things about amaranth including that it is high in vit C and B calcium and iron. So lovely Donna or maybe Addy had some seeds and planted them a month…
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Amaranth
The garden is on its way! The best vegetable thus far has been Amaranth. I've heard loads of good things about amaranth including that it is high in vit C and B calcium and iron. So lovely Donna or maybe Addy had some seeds and planted them a month or so ago. To my surprise amaranth has out grown everything else in the garden -even the weeds. It is avoided by the bugs that seem to be attacking everything else and is growing over a meter tall.
I went looking for a recipe that could use the leaves… Continue
I went looking for a recipe that could use the leaves… Continue
Posted on December 4, 2009 at 10:33am — 15 Comments
finally- eating from the garden
It has started. Nearly a year here and we are reaping the benefits from our garden. Salad mix in pots near the kitchen have finally overcome the possums. Mustard seed greens cover most of the ground were other seeds have failed to shoot. We have so many arrowroot plants now. They make a nice tropical feel to the garden. Sweet potatoes, cassava and Ibika are ready to be harvested in a few weeks. The lemon myrtle in going in homemade Ice-cream and yoghurt with the macadamia nuts that fall from the… Continue
Posted on April 1, 2009 at 4:15pm — 13 Comments
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- At 1:11pm on December 2, 2009,
Donna said…
- Check out Anthony's website..
http://www.nwcpl.com.au/
I want a Sky Farm... or an Eco Roof. Still working on him to host a Garden Visit!
- At 1:08pm on December 2, 2009,
Donna said…
- Check out member Anthony page and website
http://brisbanelocalfood.ning.com/profile/AnthonyFoo
http://www.nwcpl.com.au/
I want an Eco Roof... and a Sky Farm!
Still working on him to host a GV next year...
- At 9:20pm on November 12, 2009,
christopher zane hart said… - thanks cassandra , clay is good ,just add every scrap off organic material you can . i seldom get over your way and am kicking myself for missing the vist as there where a few people attending whom i have not meet, but allways a next time and i may be heading that way in a few weeks with some timber for a site members chook house .
- At 5:02pm on November 9, 2009,
don forsyth said… - cass, we are at 143 balham road rocklea please call 0417721250 to arrange pick up.
- At 4:54pm on November 9, 2009,
don forsyth said…
- cassandra, there is a number of grades of lucerne; i have mulch hay which we sell for $10 if you buy 20 we will deliver to tennyson in the price ie $200, we have fresher lucerne that might be better chook feed, this is $12 per bale.
- At 4:21pm on November 9, 2009,
Donna said…
- Let me know the price of 1/2 trailer load - we live at Inala which isn't too far from your place and are definitely keen...
- At 1:16pm on November 7, 2009,
Donna said…
- Hi Cass, the member with lucerne mulch is Don Forsyth, here is a link to his page: http://brisbanelocalfood.ning.com/profile/donforsyth
I have also done a blog on Lucerne Mulch recently and the trouble I have had with fine Sugar Cane mulch.
- At 8:27pm on October 14, 2009,
Scarlett Patrick said…
- i've sent elisabeth a message alerting her to your request - maybe she's not getting notifications on event comments. maybe try ringing her too i guess?
- At 10:06am on October 7, 2009,
Donna said…
- Hi Cass, can you please get back to me asap about an October Visit.
No worries if you're not able to, we can schedule it another month - we will have a picnic/ bbq at Roma Street Parklands (or somewhere) this month instead.
- At 10:19am on September 19, 2009,
Betty Cosgrove said… - Hi Cass
Just come along holding back the talk 4 a while
320 Grassdale rd gumdale
0421270430
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