Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2012 16:20:54 GMT -5
I tried to plant things, which I thought would be drought tolerant, in southern California, near the edge of a desert.
We can get 3lb heads of Amaranth, when it is still green. Weighs 1lb when dry. The problem is that the weather is always just starting to get rainy for the year, while this (pseudo)grain is still maturing (November).
I feel that it needs full sunlight and cannot be overcrowded. Just scattering Amaranth seed is not enough, as so many dozens of plants underneath the parents need to be thinned. Still, you will never fully get rid of it. According to one figure, a single head might contain a half million seeds. I had tried to intersperse Amaranth between sorghum, but it grew only at the outer edges.
I filled a colander with my modest harvest of sorghum seed and scattered many handfuls more. Lasting rhizomes might be planted in rows, to make my small area more navigable. 2 medium sized canes made a teaspoon of molasses.
I had meant to plant the more tender buckwheat between rows of sorghum and amaranth canes. The buckwheat set seed, by mid spring, before the taller canes had been established. Maybe, this will work in the second year, under pre-estbalished sorghum canes.
We can get 3lb heads of Amaranth, when it is still green. Weighs 1lb when dry. The problem is that the weather is always just starting to get rainy for the year, while this (pseudo)grain is still maturing (November).
I feel that it needs full sunlight and cannot be overcrowded. Just scattering Amaranth seed is not enough, as so many dozens of plants underneath the parents need to be thinned. Still, you will never fully get rid of it. According to one figure, a single head might contain a half million seeds. I had tried to intersperse Amaranth between sorghum, but it grew only at the outer edges.
I filled a colander with my modest harvest of sorghum seed and scattered many handfuls more. Lasting rhizomes might be planted in rows, to make my small area more navigable. 2 medium sized canes made a teaspoon of molasses.
I had meant to plant the more tender buckwheat between rows of sorghum and amaranth canes. The buckwheat set seed, by mid spring, before the taller canes had been established. Maybe, this will work in the second year, under pre-estbalished sorghum canes.
