Amaranth can be picked for the tender leaves and stems, or just the tender leaves.

Amaranth is an annual herb of the genus Amaranthus in the family Amaranthaceae; stout, green or red; leaves are ovate, rhombic, or lanceolate, green or red, purple, yellow, or partly green intermixed with other colors; flowers are globular as a whole, and the flowers are torque-rounded, green or yellowish-green; fruits are currant-shaped torque-rounded, wrapped in persistent petals; flowering is in the period of May -August, fruiting in July-September.

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.

Amaranth planting method:

Select flat terrain, convenient drainage and irrigation, fertile and loose sandy loam or clay loam, and prefer alkaline soil. Generally used direct seeding, rarely seedlings transplanted to harvest seedlings for food. Early spring February-March sowing, more use of greenhouses and small arched greenhouse cultivation; spring planting sowing (April-May), more sets of seeds in melons, eggplant fruits and beans under, or mixed with other green leafy vegetables, sowing in stages, harvesting one after another.

Before sowing, the vegetable land should be y turned, and sprinkle lime, 150 kg per 666.7 square meters. When the ground is applied to the rotted human and animal manure as a base fertilizer, per 666.7 square meters of spring sowing about 3500 kg, summer sowing 1500 kg, autumn sowing 2000 kg. The bed surface is fine rake flat, suitable for high bed deep ditch, bed width of 1.2-1.5 meters is appropriate. Seed sowing per 666.7 square meters 0.5 thousand - 0.75 kg, sowing period is early, the amount of seed is slightly larger. After sowing, do not cover the soil or cover thin soil, or covered with fine sand or grass ash or human and animal feces and urine.