Rainbow Quinoa

[goodlife]

I was just about as some questions about this crop..but just before typing this message I dug out the seed packet and it was a good thing.. ::)..answered all my questions.  But here we go..I share it with you any way.. ;D

"high-yielding, bred for home-grain production in damp climates"  ;D..well there is certainly no shortange of 'damp'...am I into a winner here.. ;D

"don'g be alarmed by their resemblance for to fat hen" ..this was the main reason for this post and I was going to ask about it..part from odd plant with red colouring rest of the looked just like the weed..I was sure I've sown tray full of fat hen.. :o

Have you grown this crop/variety?..what results have you had with it?

[goodlife]

[ed dibbles]

Hope to be trying this next year, this year it's grain amaranth.

Not surprised the young plants look like fat hen as they are very closely related. Indeed fat hen (chenopodium alba) is itself grown as a leaf and grain crop in some parts of the world. (Fat Hen the vegetable that became a weed :))

It will also be no surprise to hear Quinoa grows as well as fat hen since I know it can tolerate harsh conditions in the high andes where if originated.

[martinburo]

Yes, I've grown Chilean quinoa for a few years now. Slugs like them, so they get wood ash circles around their feet. My garden is rather windy, so by the time they are grown at ~1.5 m tall, I put four stakes around the bed they are in with a rope around, though if we have an early autumn storm they still get blown about a bit too much. Getting them dry after they ripen and before they rot is a bit of an art. I like eating it, and washing them is not a lot of work.