Flowers
Red Amaranth (Callaloo)
Amaranthus tricolor Red
Sweet tangy spinach flavour, can be used like spinach, or baby leaves as a microgreen. AKA Chinese Spinach. Used widely in Caribbean and Asian dishes. The name Callaloo adopted from a Caribbean dish that shares the same name.
- Plant type
- Hardy Annual
- Position
- Full sun
- Height
- 2m
- Spread
- 50cm
Growing calendar
JFMAMJJASOND
Sow indoors
Sow outdoors
Harvest
Sowing & growing
Sow indoors all-year-round by firming seeds onto the surface of moist seed compost. Great for microgreens or baby leaf salad. Alternatively sow direct outdoors in very shallow drills between May-Jun and harvest young leaves, or once plants are larger use leaves like spinach. Can also be grown as an ornamental for it's interesting foliage.
Aftercare
For microgreens sow every 2-3 weeks, or every 4-6 weeks for regulalr baby leaves. Keep well watered.
Gallery
Ref. SEA040