Growing Purple Amaranth In My Garden

I was at the UTC Ipoh with a friend to pay our bills. Then we went over to the central market and I bought a few small packets of vegetable seeds including a packet of green & purple amaranth seeds. I sowed the seeds in an oval pot. Hopefully, it will yield enough for 2 people.

The seeds have sprouted. There are green and purple coloured seedlings.

The seedlings have grown into healthy veggie.

These can be harvested as soon as I am ready to do some home cooking.

It is time to harvest these amaranth for our dinner.

This will be more than enough for 2 people.

Purple and green amaranth can be sauteed, blanched, or boiled in soup.

I didn't take any pictures of that evening's home cooked dinner.

Some of the smaller plants were left behind to produce seeds for future sowing.

There was another time when I harvested some green amaranth from my garden. I remembered to snap some photos to show my simple home cooked dinner.

 Taro or yam cooked with dried shrimps on the left.

Sauteed green amaranth on the right.

Surprisingly, the taro or yam are super soft. We ate these taro and veggie without any rice because the taro is very filling.

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The following periwinkle flowers from my garden are for joining Floral Bliss.

White periwinkles

Light pink periwinkles.

Deep pink periwinkles.

Purple periwinkles.

Linking to Floral Bliss.

Now I have heard that you are able to give interpretations

and to solve difficult problems.

If you can read this writing and tell me what it means,

you will be clothed in purple and a gold chain placed around your neck,

and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

(Daniel 5:16, New International Version-NIV)