FREE: Red Amaranth/ Amaranthus Cruentus

The listing, Red Amaranth/ Amaranthus Cruentus has ended.

Short lived annual...cultivated for 8,000 years as a grain / greens and vegetable. Easy to grow and lots of uses on and off the kitchen table.
Aka's: Red Leaf Amaranth, Amaranth Hopi Red Dye Seeds.
Also: Love Lies Bleeding.
Here are some very insiteful websites.
Www.greenseeds.net
WWW.natural family today.com
Www.heneryehooper.WordPress.com
Red leaves are slightly bitter raw...but when cooked slightly in olive oil the wilted Amaranth is delicious. Adds color to the plate.
The entire plant is eatable.
Seeds are crushed into flour, roots are boiled, chopped and eaten with other vegetables.
Seeds are called pseudo-cereal....like Quinoa and Buckwheat.
One common name or Aka is Pigweeds.
A natural pesticide for leaf miners....and other nasty bugs which dine on local crops.
Do not grow among these crops for Amaranth is concidered invasive with these crops:
Cotton, soybeans, wheat barley and Oats.
Farmers friends ground beetles take shelter among thus plants roots...and the roots of Amaranthus break soil, making room for more delicate neighbors to get a proper hold in the soil.

A organic glutin-free and ancient grain/green.
Creek grain, Found in histories, poems, stories and songs.
Worldly known.
These are the only packet I have avalible.
So go big or go home folks. :)