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Amaranth Planting Calculator
Everything you need to plan Amaranth: recommended spacing, how many plants and seeds you'll need, when to start, and when to expect blooms. Defaults come from grower references and every value is editable.
At a glance
- Recommended spacing
- 12″
- Planting pattern
- Intensive bed
- Time to first production
- 75 days from sowing
- Succession planting
- Recommended
- Every 30 days
- Start indoors
- 4 weeks before
- before last frost
- Production pattern
- Medium producer
- Pinch
Plan your Amaranth beds
Prefilled with Amaranth's recommended spacing. Adjust your bed size to get plant counts, seeds to start, and tray requirements.
Loads recommended spacing and planting pattern. You can override anything.
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Default 12″Range null–null″
Your plan
200
Total plants
Based on 1 plants/sq ft at 12″ spacing
- Seeds to start (10% buffer)
- 221
- 72-cell trays needed
- 4
- 128-cell trays needed
- 2
More Amaranth planning
Planning notes
- Corralling
- Landscape fabric
- Pinching
Medium producer. A planting stays productive across a more limited window, so closer succession timing helps keep supply steady.
- This crop can be direct sown.
- Pinching is commonly used in this production system.
- Corralling for structural support is commonly used.
- Landscape fabric is commonly used for spacing and weed control.