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Dave 407 Quinoa
Photo courtesy Adaptive Seeds of the quinoa variety Dave 407

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Slumping quinoa plants
As they grew taller some of the plants "slumped" and some lodged.

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Slumping quinoa plants
Whether too much heat, water or nitrogen, I propped up most of the quinoa plants with stakes.

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Mid-season quinoa
Ripening quinoa heads in late July 2015 at their most colorful

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August quinoa
Darkening quinoa seeds at the end of August 2015

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Quinoa at end of August
Darkening quinoa seeds at the end of August 2015

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Quinoa drying in garage
I hung a third of the quinoa crop in a garage to keep it out of cool, moist weather

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Quinoa drying in the greenhouse
I stored part of the quinoa crop in the greenhouse to dry it out and keep it out of the cool, moist weather.

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Thrashing the quinoa
When the quinoa had dried I stripped the seeds from the plants into a wash tub (which I filled)

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Red Head quinoa
Photo courtesy Uprising Organics of the quinoa variety Red Head