When to sow: Mar-May
Spacing: 50 x 50cm
Summary: Surface sow the tiny seeds into a seed tray and prick out into modules or pots when large enough to handle. Plant out at their final spacing after the danger of frost has past.
Amaranth – Hot Biscuits (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
£1.95
*** This year’s crop is currently being processed and tested – we hope to get everything ready for 1 November catalogue launch ***
An annual beautiful copper amaranth variety producing spires of ornamental spikes . Hot Biscuits is a fantastic addition to any cutting garden, producing tall blooms of striking copper plumes that look fantastic fresh or dried in a bouquet or arrangement. It’s easy to grow and produces an abundance of stems that pair fantastically with dahlias, sunflowers and rudbeckias. Standing up to 120cm tall, it’s also an edible plant with leaves that can be cooked like spinach and seeds which can be used as a gluten-free flour or cooked as a nutritious grain.
(Approximate seed count – 1000)
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