There are several fields not far from home growing a mystery crop this year.
It's very colourful with seed heads of red/purple, yellow and green.
Is it a crop grown for Caribbean cookery? Seem to remember seeing crops like this on programmes about city allotments where people of all nationalities grow crops we don't often use here.
Must be grown for the seeds, there are plenty on each plant
Maybe it's Amaranth? or Quinoa?
The leaves are a bit like Fat Hen - a common weed here that was once eaten, so it's from that family.
Someone will know, but whatever it is, it's definitely not been grown around here before.
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It's Amaranth. Grown for it's seeds. A bit like millet.
ReplyDeleteCould it be quinoa?
ReplyDeleteI think Quinoa as Amaranth usually hangs down in tails, but happy to be proven wrong. Perhaps with drier summers it is an experiment, I see they are growing rice somewhere in UK. Sandra.
ReplyDeleteLooks a bit like some fields around here that had what looked like sunflower flowers on a few weeks ago?
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