"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message The
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There's also this from Plants For A Future's database...

http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/...opodium+quinoa

Chenopodium quinoa (snip)

The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils
and
requires well-drained soil. The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic
(alkaline) soils and can grow in very alkaline and saline soils.It
requires moist soil....

Well which does it "prefer"....light or heavy; sandy or clay; acid or
neutral or alkaline? Does it require well drained, or moist soil?

Can the Leeds author distinguish an arse from an elbow, one wonders?

Thanks for the cite Graham, but must admit I also did a double take at the
preferences. :-)) Surely it would have been much easier to say that it
tolerated all soils.