This year I grew a grain amaranth for grain and a red leafed amaranth for the leaves. The young grain amaranth leaves were sopposed to be edible. They were pretty gross. The red was ok. Nothing to get excited about. It's easy to germinate and reseeds like crazy. I'll have to get back with you about where I got the seeds. I think I might have enough to share if you want some. How does one do the seed swap thing, anyway?

featherhoof: So you don't think it was worth planting??? I mainly want a vegetable that is high in protein that tastes good and that (as described) was suppose to fit the bill. If you have extra seeds I would like to try them. You can e-mail me (tried to e-mail you off line but didn't see your e-mail address). I will them give you my mailing address. Thanks

We grew several varieties of edible amaranth last year and really enjoyed them. True, they didn't taste much different than a mild green, but we absolutely loved having that much green stuff available in the garden at any time for either a quick fresh salad or a stir fry.
Our plants maintained a nice 2-foot height and stayed nice and leafy throughout the season. We didn't have as good of luck with the red-leafed variety as we did with the green ones. I have my seeds in the garden as we speak and I'm looking forward to this year's batch!
I ordered the seeds from evergreenseeds.com

If you're looking for nutritional punch in your greens, give okinawa spinach a try if you can find a plant. It is very hearty and is told to have cholesterol-reducing properties even.

Jane

My green amaranth got to be 6 ft tall(grain kind.) The red got to be 2-3 ft tall. I'll add my email to my profile.

Those are the green. The red tasted much better.