DIGGING DEEPER - GARDENING IN-DEPTH AMARANTH
Most UK gardeners have encountered amaranth as an ornamental, more commonly known as ‘love-lies-bleeding’. Its multicoloured leaves and unusual woolly tassel-shaped flowers are great for adding colour and texture to the garden. But most of us are missing a trick as the amaranth plant produces highly nutritious leaves and seeds too.
There are communities of people, mainly from Jamaica and Bangladesh, that grow and eat this plant in the UK but sadly, consumption has been slow to spread beyond these groups. But as it is a plant of
