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+ | ===== Quinoa varieties ===== | ||
+ | We are trying Dave 407 from Adaptive Seeds and Red Head from Uprising. | ||
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+ | ==== Dave 407 ==== | ||
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+ | I have planted a flat of 72 cells for transplanting to the Fall City garden. | ||
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+ | Here's what adaptive says: | ||
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+ | ==== Red Head ===== | ||
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+ | I intend to plant Red Head quinoa directly into the Fall City farm. | ||
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+ | The following description is from Uprising Organics. | ||
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+ | It is pretty unfussy and a visually beautiful plant in bloom. A close relative to the common weed, lambquarters, | ||
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+ | Red Head is a selection by Frank Morten out of some of the first wave of imported quinoa to withstand potentially wet and cool fall harvest times, something it doesn’t often face in the Andes. It has a more open head structure and resistance to premature seed sprouting in wet weather near harvest time.</ |