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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and my good friend Sarah Raven.

Today we're looking through our range of seeds for the coming growing season and it's so wonderful to look through this catalogue of gorgeous photography and all the collections and arrangements that me and Sarah do through the year.

What are you looking forward to filling the seed Tim with at Perch Hill?

I'm going to start with something which I've long grown,

but what I really love about gardening is that even though you grow

varying range of things from one year to the next something catches your eye and either you suddenly

see it in a new light or in my case with this I picked it and used it it. But it's the amaranth's and we have an

amaranth collection in the catalogue this year and they're very much overlooked plant I think because

they're of course foliage rather than flowers and we all love our flowers, our sort of bloomy blooms.

But I was just completely amazed by this year.

We had it in the flower area of the garden, but also in the veg. And what I found is that even for

our courses when we were on the road in November, I was able to come back on a Friday and start

picking. And a lot of picking on the Sunday to then head off again

on Sunday night to start teaching on the Monday. And right into the middle of November, I was able

to pick Amaranth Red Army. And that's what, you know, it's so good because if you grow something

and then you see that it's a really hard worker, it just makes you love it more. And not just that,

but also the birds were on it all the time because, of course, Amaranth is the Kinawa family.

And Kinawa, as those of you interested in your health and nutrition, is one of the best grains

because it's protein rather than carbohydrate. And so for birds, just like for us,

amaranths are incredibly good and their seed is incredibly nutritious. And so all the tiny birds

from a lot of the different tit family, but also wrens, I also saw feasting on it. So that's

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