How to grow amaranth with seeds to eat all year round

Amaranth is a nutrient-rich vegetable that brings many unexpected health benefits such as preventing osteoporosis, reducing inflammation, and preventing cancer. Amaranth is very popular in family meals, can be processed into many different ways, such as boiling, cooking soup, cooking porridge.. Amaranth can be grown by seeds, by branches. In the article below, Nha Kim Garden would like to share "How to grow amaranth from seeds".

Table of contents

1. Biological properties
2. Cultivation techniques
About the breed:
Season, tillage, quantity of seeds:
Fertilizer:
Pest control:
Harvest:
1. Biological properties
– There are many types of amaranth: amaranth, amaranth, 3-color amaranth, etc. have high nutritional value.

Amaranth is a summer vegetable (from February to July), which grows very well.

– Amaranth has strong roots, deep eating, so it is very drought tolerant and water tolerant.

Leaves are rhombic or spear-shaped, narrow at the base, bluntly pointed.

Amaranth has small seeds, the seeds have a horny shell, so they can keep their germination for a long time even if they are buried deep in the soil.

Amaranth plants grow well at a temperature of 25-30 degrees Celsius, if there is high humidity, the tree gives many branches and leaves.

2. Cultivation techniques
About the breed:
There are many types, but mainly choose 2 varieties to make vegetables such as:

– White amaranth (also known as green amaranth leaves): Vegetables have green stems and leaves; The leaf blade is narrow, willow-shaped (so it is also called amaranth of willow leaves).

– Red amaranth (also known as purple amaranth): Vegetables have leaves that are slightly round or round like mussel shells, with long and large leaves; Stems, branches and leaves are blood-colored.

In addition, amaranth rice is also a herbaceous plant, branching from the base, the stem is light green; The leaves are rhombic or ovate with a blade-length stalk. Amaranth rice is also a common vegetable dish in rural families, can be used by boiling or cooking soup.

Season, tillage, quantity of seeds:
– Main crop: sowing seeds from February to July.

– Because the seeds of amaranth are very small, it is necessary to make the soil carefully (to make the soil finely ground) to facilitate the germination of the seeds evenly, when sowing, the seeds should be mixed with kitchen ash to sow evenly.

- Up to 0.6 - 1.0 m wide x length (depending on the size of the garden) but the maximum should not exceed 20 m.

– The amount of seeds sown in the nursery is from 1.5 – 2 g/m2.

– After sowing about 25-30 days, then uproot (plants 10-15 cm high), plant spacing: 15 x 15 cm or 12 x 20 cm.

Fertilizer:
- Fertilizer: combined with soil preparation and fertilizing for plants: 120 - 150 kg of manure / 100 m2.

- After transplanting from 5-7 days, the plant has recovered. Because spinach is a leafy vegetable, it should be fertilized with Urea fertilizer diluted 0.4 kg/100m2.

– If you grow a Styrofoam box at home, just use composted fish manure to fertilize the well-made soil and the vegetables will grow very well.

– If there is no fish manure, you can use urine soaked in phosphate powder for 2 weeks or more to dilute to irrigate vegetables, vegetables will also grow very well.

Note when watering vegetables: 1 time / day.

Pest control:
Amaranth plants are less susceptible to pests and diseases, mainly being eaten by leafworms such as caterpillars, greenworms, and borers. If growing at home, only use homemade herbs such as:

- Waterpipe tobacco soaked for 1 night and then diluted to spray for vegetables

- Dilute dish soap and spray

– SK Enspray 99 EC mineral oil or Bio hopper 39 EC buffalo head mineral oil; If the above measures are not very effective, you can use Sherpa or Sherzol to spray for prevention.

Note:

When using pesticides, it is necessary to follow the 4 right principles (right drug, right dose, right time and right method) and ensure the isolation period. Do not use prohibited drugs, do not exceed the prescribed dose.

Harvest:
- After transplanting to the garden to plant 25-30 days, then proceed to harvest. Often uprooting the whole tree, rarely picking and pruning. In case farmers want to harvest vegetables when they are young (10-15 cm tall) to use.

Above is an article sharing how to grow amaranth from seeds. You can also apply this growing method to growing amaranth in styrofoam containers, pots, ..