Annual Amaranth flowers are an easy-to-grow flowering plant. Even first-time gardeners will find growing Amaranth is both easy and rewarding. If you are looking for dried flowers, you’ve come to the right plant. Amaranth flowers keep their color after they are dried. They make perfect dried...
It is an extremely low-maintenance plant that grows well in temperatures between 18-24°C but can withstand high heat and even drought-like conditions. How to grow amaranth: You can begin planting amaranth seed anytime between mid-May to mid-June. Seedlings can be started indoors, or the...
Plants that are true annuals have brief lives: they grow, flower, and die in a single year. Read our tips to grow poppies, sweet peas, sunflowers, nasturtium, and more.
To grow peanuts, you start them like any other plant and grow up yourseedlings. To do this, you need to fill alarge bowl2/3 full ofpotting soil, then shell about four peanuts, you can get the peanut seeds at the grocery store or your local garden center. Make sure the peanuts are ...
How To Grow Yams Today we’ll look at how to grow yams, plus this post will serve as asurvival plant profileon my favorite root. It’s no secret that I love yams. How can you NOT love roots that look like this?! Learn how to grow yams and EAT LIKE A KING!
The entire plant is used in African cuisine and traditional medicine. Benne is considered a sign of good fortune in West Africa and given as offerings. Throughout Africa, planting benne is to grow good luck! The first benne seeds made their way to America via enslaved Africans, who were the...
Image: About 2-3 days after the Red Amaranth seedlings were sown What are some of the more common mistakes made when planting and harvesting, and how does one avoid these? One common mistake is overwatering or underwatering; the secret is to be observant and react to your...
Whether you want to share seed from your garden with family or you want to grow a drought-tolerant plant, sesame is for you. Sesame’s stalks grow up to three feet tall, and its bell-shaped flowers are lovely to look at. Search local seed distributors for your favorite variety and you...
How to Grow Amaranth Similar to buckwheat, Amaranth grows best in the soil, not a raised bed. The flower heads are quite heavy and will topple over in a raised bed. I start amaranth seeds in the house and plant them after my frost date. Space them a foot apart to allow them to grow...
It is not that surprising if you think about it. After all, a tiny seed needs to have a lot of power to grow into a whole plant – with the help of water, sunlight and soil only. Sprouts are also a gourmet food in the sense that they have a very delicate taste of the plant the...