Chinese Amaranth Calaloo

AMARANTH CALALOO ~ dark green laves tinged with red makes this tasty as well as decorative, use in salads or cooked. 50 seeds SOW: in the spring and summer, you can start these in trays to plant out when they reach about 5cm tall after being hardened off. You can also start them in situ by sowing thinly. GROW: You can plant these to form an edible edge to a bed and use as a cut-and-come-again salad crop, start picking when they reach 10cm tall. Allow a few plants to grow larger for adding to stir fry or oriental soup. This amaranth is tolerant of heat and drought and is slow to bolt. EAT: add the delicate leaves to salads. Larger leaves can be added to a stir fry or lightly wilted & served with lemon juice.