Guest guest Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 Hi Rosa, Have you tried combining the amaranth seeds with wheat berries to make bread flour? It doesn't surprise me that amaranth seeds are a tough customer. Just offhand, I know that forest fires don't often get hot enough to kill seeds and I frequently have cooked lentils sprouting in the sink trap(!). They talk of California redwood forests being a fire-climax culture, in that the pine seeds are not supposedly released from the cone until they encounter the intense heat of a fire. My compost is largely grass cuttings and I take it for granted that I'm going to have volunteer grass plants to weed out of new beds. I just don't usually pack the soil too hard so they are easy to pull out when I start making my little daily scissor harvests. I'm currently collecting seeds from my winter arugula and tendergreen mustard. Best to you and your family, Slim , " rosetalleo " <rosetalleo wrote: > > Very good reason, keep your house cool. One could even run an extension cord and bake in the yard to keep the house cool in the summer. I am leaning towards an outside bread/pizza oven, but this is a couple of years in the future. > > My amaranth sprouted from compost that did not get hot enough, not killing the seeds. This turned out to be a blessing, since the volunteer red amaranth looks beautiful mixed with the other crops. I found out that I do like the red amaranth in salad, raw. Tart taste, gives salads a zing. Very different from the green. I did not eat the leaves of the red earlier since i grew it from very little seed, so i just harvested the seed. Glad that it grew for you! warning: if you let it go to seed you will have lots of it! > Roseta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 Slim, no, never tried amaranth/wheat bread but it sounds good! Harvesting the seed was too hard but I did save enough to grow again, and to share as seed. I could not figure out how to separate the chaff without machinery. The only grain that seems worth growing in a home garden is corn, even though it gets big! well, so does amaranth, but my winter version was a lot smaller. You are right about some seeds needing actual fire to germinate. I was cold composting, we have a tumbler now, so hopefully less volunteers, not that this is such a bad thing! One year we had a summer squash volunteer that could have fed the whole street. My arugula is also bolting, ditto for some of the mustard and the cilantro. Radishes bolting too, I just found out the little seed pods are also edible! Take care and enjoy your garden! Rosa/Roseta , " slim_langer " <slim_langer wrote: > > Hi Rosa, > Have you tried combining the amaranth seeds with wheat berries to make bread flour? It doesn't surprise me that amaranth seeds are a tough customer. Just offhand, I know that forest fires don't often get Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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