Amaranthus has a stout stem, green or red in color, with ovate, rhombic-ovate, or lanceolate leaves; pictures of Amaranthus are as follows:

Amaranthus is an annual herbaceous plant, with a height of about 80-150 centimeters or so, and a stout stem, green or red in color, and often branched. The leaves of Amaranthus are ovate, rhombic-ovate or lanceolate in shape with rounded or pointed concave tips and cuneate bases, entire or undulate margins. The flower clusters of Amaranthus are globose, male and female flowers are mixed, bracts and bracteoles are ovate-lanceolate. The seeds of Amaranthus are suborbicular or obovate in shape and black or blackish brown in color.

Amaranth is native to India and was introduced into China as early as the 10th century A.D. Nowadays, it is distributed in southern Asia, Central Asia, East Asia and other places, and is cultivated all over China. Amaranth prefer warm, moist and sunny climatic conditions, avoid high humidity, heat and water, drought, alkali resistance is strong, not cold; to fertile, loose clay soil is good.

Amaranth planting method

1, sowing time

Amaranth sex like warmth, its seeds in the 10-12 ℃ above the temperature environment in order to germinate and grow, the temperature more than 35 ℃, then, it will be on the germination and growth of adverse effects, so amaranth is generally the best in the spring in the March-April time! So amaranth is usually best sown in March-April in the spring, when the climatic environment is most favorable for germination and growth.

2, selecting the land and preparing the ground

Amaranth is best sown in sandy loam plots with flat terrain, loose and fertile soil, and convenient drainage and irrigation, and before planting it is necessary to apply some rotted organic fertilizers and phosphorus and potassium fertilizers to the soil, after which the soil should be turned over y, and made into a ridge of soil into beds with ridges, ridges of 10cm high, and a width of beds of 1m.

3, correct sowing

Amaranth seed is relatively small, so in the sowing time, you can mix its seed and fine sand evenly, and then directly sown into the soil, and covered with a layer of thin soil, amaranth sowing good, to moderate watering, to keep the soil slightly moist, so that after a few days it will be able to come out of the seedling growth.