I have been trying to grow bleeding hart amaranth but so far I can't get it to sprout. It's been frustrating.

How cool do you need it to be to sprout?

I may have some callaloo but it will be old at this point. Let me see if I can dig it up. I'll be glad to send it and will send hopes of germination along with the envelope. LOL.

Thanks DG

I am originally from the tropics. Hot weather near the equator. We grow all kinds of amaranths mainly as a leafy vegetable. There they sprout and grow in hot weather. I know that it's related to spinach but this species can take heat because it's definitely not cool where I come from. Night temps in the 70s.

Where I live here in Central PA I normally grow it in the summer. Just purchased some red seed and will plant those in a couple of days.

poetle, thanks. I'll try planting a few now to see how they do. They are so mild. My son and I would forage those, wild mustard and other wild greens and cook big pots of them.

Don't forget the lambsquarters. Taste like spinach. Same family

poetie, in the summer when we would visit my grandmother on the island where she lived, and she found me too annoying, she'd give me her basket and say "Go get some lambsquarters for dinner," and I would They were everywhere and I have loved them ever since.

Oh yeah. I pick them here in my yard because I do not use any chemicals so everything that is edible is available.

Shoot! I keep forgetting to look for my seed stash. I haven't come across it since we moved. Then again I haven't looked for it. I'm trying NOT to get started in the garden. We've got reclaimed water so I'll need to be extra careful how and where I plant edibles. Not to mention a steep slope I need to contend with first. I feel bad I said I'd send them. :-(

Barb, don't worry about it. I'm way behind on everything right now.