Chenopodium rubrum 'Red Goosefoot'

[Ex. Co. Durham. England]

Chenopodiaceae: an annual growing to 60cm. found on waste and cultivated land, often near the sea, also in farmyards and rubbish tips. Chenopodium rubrum is nearly always reddish in colour with coarsely and irregularly toothed leaves and prostate or erect in habit. Flowering from flower from July to October. Native to North America and Eurasia. It is listed a special concern and believed extirpated in Connecticut. It is listed as endangered in New Jersey, and as threatened in Maine, New Hampshire, and in New York (state).

USES:

The Goshute Shosone of Utah use the seeds for food. The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked as a spinach. The ground seed can be used with cereal flours to make bread, and cakes.

Gold/green dyes can be obtained from the whole plant.

GROWING INFORMATION:

Sow seeds in spring in situ. Most of the seed usually germinates within a few days of sowing. An easily grown plant, succeeding in most soils but disliking shade. it prefers a moderately fertile soil.

HARVESTED: 2019

APPROX. 200+ SEEDS