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Quinoa was links to good photos?
I had thought that quinoa grew in cold climates(needed), but I see from your PFAF info that its is primarily a temperate/equatorial plant. I have tried to obtain some seeds in Oz but no luck. Tara gave me a contact in NZ but they did not respond to a letter. probably its too difficult to pack and pay for import into oz. Winds: In South Oz we have been having a lot of strong winds which is drying up the small amount of rain we have had this year. I read that in 'El Nino' periods winds are stronger. Graham , losing your shed is a problem with winter not too far away, I hope its righted now. Cheers Wes BTW can you tell me a bit more about the quinoa you grew? What conditions does it like, how does one harvest it and prepare it to eat etc and anything else you can think of. I got a small amount of seed from Plants For a Future which I planted, of this only 3 plants made it maturity (problem is it closely resembles Fat Hen, to which it is related, and which is endemic on my plot as a weed). I saved most of this as seed, and the following year thickly broadcast it in my garden, and had a really high germination rate, it was everywhere and needed loads of thinning out... Even some soak water that I'd poured onto the ground germinated. anyway, i harvested the heads again, used most of it but kept some seed, however ever since have had very poor germination, maybe it was a freak year that it did well?? I must admit that I havn't tried it the last couple of years, tho small scale grain growing is something I'd like to try again... PS: send rain urgently, creek has dried to a few permanent water holes and "they" are now saying this is the worst drought since 1902. Any bushfires this year will be truly disasterous (AND I live in an area which is supposedly not officially in drought). Well your welcome to some of ours at the moment... high winds blew my shed down last weekend and I havn't had a chance to sort it out yet. Unfortunately it's now dark by the time I usually leave work, so I explained to my boss that I had a 'domestic crisis' I had to deal with and he let me leave work early to sort it out the other day (I think he found it quite funny that I considered a shed on it's side a 'domestic crisis...'), but it was absolutely chucking it down so all i could do was salvage a few tools and stash them temporarily in my compost bin... Today I was hoping to get down the allotment but again it's hacking down outside.... And I've got loads of potatoes that need to come out.... Arrggghhh!!!! Cheers for now Graham |
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