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Garden quinoa (red). Garden quinoa Quinoa cultivated plant

Garden quinoa (red). Garden quinoa Quinoa cultivated plant

Attitude to light: shade-tolerant, light-loving

Relation to moisture: prefers moderate moisture

Wintering: does not winter in the middle zone

The soil: prefers garden soils

Flowering time: summer (July-August)

Height: high (above 100 cm)

Value in culture: decorative foliage

Atriplex Quinoa, atriplex. A large annual plant with purple-red stems and leaves.

Types and varieties of quinoa

Only one annual species is grown - Atriplex hortensis, which is often called “Finnish quinoa”. Initially it was cultivated as a gourmet vegetable crop. Its fresh leaves are prepared like spinach, and dried leaves are added to teas.

Garden atriplex or garden quinoa (Atriplex hortensis)

Atritex reaches a height of 150-200 cm. The plants are slender, not very branched, compact. The flowers are small and inconspicuous.

Blooms in mid-July and blooms until mid-September.

Several are known decorative varieties, which are most often used as a background for other views:

‘Crimson Plume’ - purple flowers, red leaves;

‘Gold Plume’ - yellow flowers and leaves;

‘Red Plume’ - red flowers and leaves

Quinoa care

Does not require special care: unpretentious, not demanding on soils, light-loving, but can also grow in partial shade, thermophilic.

Quinoa plants can be trimmed to create dense walls.

Quinoa propagation

Place seeds in nests of 2-3 seeds at a distance of 25-30 cm in a permanent place. The sowing time is chosen so that the seedlings are not damaged by frost, usually at the end of May. The seeds germinate quickly in 6-8 days.

This showy silvery shrub is often used as a hedge, ideal for maritime climates, providing excellent protection from wind and sea spray.

To form a dense hedge from atriplex, you will have to actively work with pruners and hedge trimmers in March - if the plant is not pruned, it easily forms voids at the base and in the center of the bush.

Height: from 1.5 to 2 m
Width: 2 to 3 m
Classification by foliage type: evergreen shrub
Optimal location: in the sun
Frost resistance: extremely thermophilic, cannot withstand temperatures below -5°C
Soil: sandy, dry, neutral reaction
Growing method: in hedges, in groups, in containers
Pruning period: spring (March)

Landing

In autumn or at the very beginning of spring, prepare a planting hole 80 x 80 cm. For a hedge, dig a trench with the same parameters of depth, width and required length. Plant bushes at intervals of 60-80 cm from each other. After planting, water the plants thoroughly.

Trimming

Formative pruning

Hedges need to be trimmed every season, maintaining a constant height. The point of pruning is to ensure that the bushes remain dense and compact, and their “legs” are not exposed. Stimulating pruning allows you to actively grow young shoots, making the hedge thicker.

Sanitary pruning

Continue to maintain the height and width of the fence along its entire length. Remove old and dried shoots at the roots, thereby giving way to young ones.

Reproduction

Propagation by cuttings

The optimal time for propagation by cuttings is April or May. The apical cuttings should be about 10 cm long, remove the lower leaves, keeping the upper ones, and place the cutting in a pot filled with damp sand. The pots must be placed in a greenhouse with a regular temperature of at least 18 ° C and high humidity. As soon as the cutting takes root, it can be transplanted into the school.

Care and agricultural technology

When planting, be sure to add a generous portion of organic humus to the hole. Regular weeding at the beginning of summer will get rid of weeds and aerate the soil. Water in dry and hot weather.

Gone are the days when people had to eat quinoa bread. Today, the plant is used by gardeners to decorate their flower beds and summer cottages.

Quinoa genus

More than two hundred herbaceous plants, subshrubs and shrubs represent the genus Quinoa (Atriplex).

The stems and leaves of plants are often covered with a white powdery coating, to which, according to one version, they owe their name.

Varieties

Salted quinoa(Atriplex halimus) is a perennial shrub that grows up to 2.5 meters in height. In coastal areas, hedges are made from it. The silver-gray foliage of salt quinoa looks like shiny porcelain, giving the bush the appearance of a porcelain decorative sculpture. Quinoa roots absorb salts from the soil well, thereby cultivating the soil.

Garden quinoa(Atriplex hortensis) is a herbaceous annual whose leaves people use for food, adding young leaves to salads. The bush grows up to two meters and is covered with green leaves. There are varieties that have reddish leaves, such as red garden quinoa. The "Orach Red" variety is distinguished by its leaves, which back side purple color. And the variety “Red Feather” has ovoid-rounded small fruits of a reddish color.

Quinoa lenticularis

(Atriplex lentiformis) is a perennial shrub that grows up to three meters in height. Its erect stem with spreading shoots is covered with silvery leaves, the shape of which can be different, from oblong to ovoid. Quinoa lenticularis is a dioecious plant, that is, in order to grow its own seeds, you need to have two bushes: a female and a male.

Growing

Hedges are made from quinoa, planting bushes at a distance of 40 cm from each other, and it is also grown in single and group plantings. Quinoa is a heat-loving plant, and therefore it is more comfortable for it to grow in a mild climate. But they also grow it in more northern regions, pruning in early spring under the root of the above-ground part of the plant, damaged by winter frosts. Roots that have overwintered in the soil produce new shoots, continuing the life of the perennial quinoa.

Quinoa is planted in open ground in colder areas in the spring, and in warmer climates in the fall. Quinoa likes loose soil. Quinoa can grow on saline soil, being its healer, cleansing the soil of salt pollution. By accumulating absorbed salts in its leaves, quinoa turns into natural fertilizer. The leaves are dried and used as a nitrogen fertilizer, grinding them into powder and fertilizing the soil for plants that need nitrogen.

At the beginning of the growing season, decorative quinoa is fed with complex fertilizer at the rate of 30 grams per 1 square meter. Garden quinoa, whose leaves are eaten, also needs organic fertilizer. For example, when fertilizing with manure, 4-5 kilograms of manure are required per 1 square meter of land.

Choose a sunny planting location for quinoa. The plant is resistant to high temperatures, but from frost, as already noted, the above-ground part dies off, but living roots remain, resuming the growing season in the spring.

Quinoa requires regular watering in the spring and summer, especially during prolonged drought.

Maintaining Appearance

For supporting appearance Plants need to promptly remove heavily damaged and dried shoots.

Reproduction

Quinoa can be propagated by seeds, cuttings from shoots, and shoots.

Propagation by sowing seeds is rarely used. More often, at the end of spring, cuttings from shoots are cut and planted in clean sand or light sandy loam soil. Until roots form on the cuttings, keep the soil moist. Cuttings with roots are planted in open ground in a favorite place.

If the plant develops shoots with their own roots, they are separated from the mother plant and planted in a permanent place.

Quinoa's enemies

If the growing rules are followed, quinoa rarely succumbs to diseases and pests. But when a plant is grown in heavy soil or when there is too much moisture in the soil, the roots of the plant rot.

The next enemy is frost, which damages the above-ground part of the plant, and in severe frosts without snow, the roots can also freeze.

Garden Atriplex (garden quinoa) Red feather, 0.2 g (Expiration date: 10/01/2018)

Brand: Russia Gardens

Sowing seedlings

Transplantation into the ground

Landing in the ground

Bloom

An extremely elegant and attractive plant despite the gigantic size of this “feather”. The bright purple-red color and elegant graceful forms are attractive all season long, even the shoots with appearing red-coral and burgundy leaves involuntarily attract attention. A vigorous plant that can be trimmed and shaped. Heat-loving. The sowing time is chosen so that the seedlings are not subject to return frosts.

Chenopodiaceae family

Origin of culture
Garden quinoa grows as a weed in the European part of Russia, the Caucasus, the south of Western Siberia, and Central Asia.

Beneficial features
Young leaves and shoots contain a large amount of mineral salts, vitamins C and PP. The presence of a large amount of protein makes this plant equal in satiety to animal products. Dry quinoa is added to flour, which increases the nutritional value of bread, which bakes better and lasts longer. The seeds are used to make porridge, which is similar in taste and nutritional value to buckwheat. Quinoa and cutlets are good. Young leaves are used as High Quality. Quinoa is suitable for salads, soups, purees, for drying, pickling, pickling.

Biological features
An annual plant, strong, pyramidal in shape, up to 2 m high, with wide heart-shaped leaves. Young stems and leaves are covered with a waxy coating. The color of the stems and leaves is very diverse: the leaves and stem are green, light yellow, red, the leaves are green with red edges, the stem is green, the ends of the leaves are pink.

Varieties
There are no domestic breeding varieties, so imported and local ones are used. Garden red quinoa is used for decorative purposes, the rest - for food.

Growing conditions
Garden quinoa can grow on slightly saline poor soils, however good harvest can only be obtained on soils rich in organic matter.

Quinoa successfully tolerates short-term drought, but in general it is moisture-loving and, with a lack of soil moisture, forms lateral branches and flowering stems. The leaves become small and hard.

The plant is cold-resistant. Seeds are sown in the spring, as soon as the ground thaws. The distance between rows is 60 cm, between plants in a row - 5 cm, seed placement depth is 5 mm. Seedlings are easily identified by their purple cotyledons. They are thinned out, leaving plants in a row at a distance of 25-30 cm from each other.

Garden quinoa can be sown at several times: the first time - in early spring, then every two weeks until the onset of hot weather. The last time it is sown is in early August. The seed sowing rate is 1-1.5 g/m2.

To keep the greens tender and juicy, watering is carried out regularly. Fertilizing with a urea solution (5-10 g per 10 liters of water), which is given after thinning, is effective.

Economic suitability occurs 20-25 days after germination. They are harvested either by cutting off whole young plants 30-40 cm high, or by tearing off the lower leaves.

For all varieties of goosefoot, seeds are sown in open ground without embedding or with surface embedding. When sowing in spring at the end of April - beginning of May, seedlings appear unevenly, after 5-14 days. Plants often renew themselves by self-seeding.

At the end of June, buds appear on the main stem. In mid-July, plants enter the flowering phase and continue to develop, grow and bloom until the end of August - beginning of September, when the fruiting phase begins. With the onset of cold weather (in the conditions of the Moscow region in the first ten days of October) the growing season ends. The growing season lasts on average about 140 days.

How to get seeds
To obtain garden quinoa seeds, the plants of the first sowing period are left until they ripen. The seeds are yellow-brown, weight 1000 pieces 4-6 g, remain viable for 1-2 years.

For the vast majority of gardeners, the word “quinoa” means the mortal enemy of the garden, no matter what is written after this terrible word. This name really shocks everyone. Yes, this is understandable, because in the minds of gardeners and gardeners, quinoa is in the first row of the most malicious weeds next to wheatgrass, sow thistle, dandelion, wormwood, although in lean and war years it, along with nettles, more than once saved our ancestors from starvation. And if you don’t get rid of the quinoa in time, then you won’t find any other seedlings in the garden bed.

But now we are talking about a vegetable crop that deserves the widest distribution. The quinoa genus is very numerous, with a large number of species. But these are all weeds. No wonder in the old days they said: “Sow thistle and quinoa are a disaster for crops.” Only one plant from this genus has been introduced into cultivation - garden quinoa, which has two varieties: a salad form with green and yellow leaves and a decorative form with blood-red leaves.

Garden quinoa – annual herbaceous plant from the goosefoot family, a cultural form of the familiar quinoa. This is a very rare vegetable crop in amateur gardens and vegetable gardens.

Like a vegetable cultivated plant garden quinoa was known back in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Currently widely cultivated in Western Europe and the USA.

Garden quinoa is a very tall and powerful plant. Its stem is erect, pyramidal in shape, up to 1.8 meters high. The leaves are triangular, spear-shaped at the base, jagged, yellow or green in color. Decorative forms of garden quinoa have red, yellow or variegated leaves. The flowers are very small, collected in bunches into spike-shaped inflorescences. Garden quinoa seeds are small, covered with a hard shell, which is why they remain in the soil for a long time without germinating.

Now many varieties of this plant are known, but garden red, garden yellow and garden green are in greatest demand.

Garden quinoa is a very cold-resistant plant, tolerates frosts down to minus 5°C. The most favorable temperature for plant development is 15-18°C. Garden quinoa is not demanding on soil fertility, but is very demanding on the moisture content in the soil, and at the same time it can withstand short-term drought well. But in this case, the quinoa quickly forms a flowering stem, its leaves become coarse and become unsuitable for food.

It is necessary to place the beds with quinoa in a bright place, although it tolerates light partial shade. Delicate, tasty greens can only be obtained if the soil is sufficiently supplied with moisture.
They eat juicy greens that have a salty taste. Virtually odorless, when adding onions, peppers, garlic, spicy herbs it is an ideal ingredient for preparing a wide variety of salads, side dishes, and various soups, while simultaneously enriching them with protein. They make it out of it and delicious cutlets.

In Western European countries, quinoa greens are widely used as a winter vitamin seasoning for first and second courses, sauces, and gravies. To do this, the prepared leaves must be dried and ground into powder.

Quinoa leaves have the richest chemical composition. They contain plant proteins and various mineral salts, are rich in vitamin C - up to 95 mg%, rutin - up to 110 mg%. They contain significantly less oxalic acid than the famous spinach. And in terms of yield, garden quinoa is far superior to spinach, and it accumulates nitrates significantly less than spinach. It is believed to have a healing effect on stomach diseases.

Any cultivated soil is suitable for its cultivation. However, a good harvest of tender greens can only be obtained in well-prepared beds with constant watering. It is very profitable to grow it as a very early green in a greenhouse.

The soil for garden quinoa is prepared in the fall: it is dug to a bayonet depth, first adding half a bucket of rotted compost per 1 sq.m, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of superphosphate and 1 teaspoon of potassium fertilizer. In the spring, as soon as the soil allows, it is dug up again to a depth of 12-15 cm, adding 1 teaspoon ammonium nitrate per 1 sq.m.

Garden quinoa is cultivated by sowing seeds in open ground from early spring, as soon as the soil allows, and then two weeks later until the onset of hot weather. In conditions of short daylight hours, flowering occurs later, and the yield of green mass is higher.

In gardens and vegetable gardens, garden quinoa is sown in rows with a row spacing of 35-40 cm. The seeds are planted to a depth of 2-3 cm. After sowing, the soil must be rolled. And if you are going to use quinoa only as an early spring salad plant, then you can simply sow the seeds in the garden in bulk.

To obtain fresh greens throughout the summer, repeat sowings are done every 12-15 days.
Caring for plants involves loosening the rows and removing weeds. In the phase of two true leaves, the seedlings are thinned out, leaving a distance of 15-20 cm between the young plants, and after another 10 days this distance is increased to 30 cm. Plants are fertilized on poorly prepared soil after thinning with nitrogen fertilizers (1 teaspoon of urea per 10 liters of water ). During dry periods, plants are watered.

During the growing season, quinoa greens are picked for food 2-3 times, cutting off the leaves and tops of the plants, leaving some of the leaves for the development of the plant. You can also cut off the plants entirely or uproot them when they reach a height of 40 cm. In the area freed up in this case, you can re-sow vegetable plants.

Harvested quinoa leaves are used fresh or cooked, much in the same way as lettuce and spinach. Moreover, it must be used as soon as possible, because... The products wither rather quickly and lose their presentation.
To obtain seeds, the seed bush is not touched until autumn. To prevent the shoots from falling, they must be tied to a support. In autumn, seed plants are cut and threshed.

Garden quinoa, like all its wild “relatives,” is prone to self-sowing. But this should not be allowed, as it heavily clogs the area.

Quinoa is an annual salad-spinach plant of the goosefoot family. It has been known in culture since ancient times. It was grown in ancient Greece, Rome and Western Europe.

Garden quinoa and its types

Garden quinoa has several forms:

With light yellow and green coloring of stems and leaves, grown as a salad crop
With red leaves and stems, grown as an ornamental

The stem is erect, reaches 180 cm in height. The leaves in the rosette stage are triangular, oval, the upper leaves are lanceolate, entire, the flowers are located on the central stem and lateral shoots, collected in paniculate inflorescences. The achene fruit is located between two greenish-yellow bracts.

Quinoa salad

Plant species

Quinoa lettuce is a cold-resistant plant that requires little moisture and soil fertility. Grows on slightly saline soils and tolerates drought well. It is not grown under production conditions. It is cultivated by amateur gardeners.

The leaves of young plants in the rosette stage or at the beginning of the appearance of shoots are eaten. Okroshka and green cabbage soup are prepared from the tender leaves. Porridge is prepared from young leaves boiled in milk.

How to plant quinoa

Quinoa salad is grown by sowing seeds in the ground with row spacing of 45-70 cm and a distance between plants in a row of 88-10 cm. Seeds are sown in early spring or before winter. To prolong the supply of fresh leaves, repeat sowings are carried out. Commercial ripeness occurs on days 28–40, when the plant reaches a height of 25–30 cm.

Planting Quinoa

Please note: Store at a temperature of 2-6 degrees Celsius for 8-10 days. Transportability is good.

To obtain seeds, quinoa salad is sown at the same time and with the same row spacing. The seeds are planted in the soil to a depth of 2-3 cm. Shoots appear on the 10th - 14th day. Plants left for seed are thinned to 30 cm. Quinoa ripens in August-September. The testes are cut off at the end of the wax period and the beginning of full ripeness of the seeds. After a few days, the dried plants are threshed.

Use of quinoa in folk medicine and cooking

IN folk medicine infusions from the herb are used as a diuretic, as well as for jaundice and colds. Fresh leaves, collected before flowering, are used as a medicinal salad for vitamin deficiency and lung diseases. As an external remedy in cosmetic practice, an infusion of water from flowering plants is used for washing and lotions for itchy skin and acne. Steamed herb in the form of a poultice relieves pain from bruises, rheumatism, radiculitis, and the infusion, taken orally, reduces sweating, helps with hemorrhoids, bronchitis, cough, neurasthenia. A decoction of the seeds is used for diseases of the liver and spleen.

Young and fleshy quinoa leaves in soups, salads and botvinya have a number of advantages over nettle and sorrel. Nettle leaves are contraindicated for patients with atherosclerosis and diseases accompanied by increased blood clotting, and sorrel should not be used for gastritis, stomach and duodenal ulcers, or high acidity.

Method of using quinoa infusion: pour 1 tablespoon of boiling water, leave in a thermos for an hour, strain. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day, an hour before meals

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Quinoa...garden

About two years ago I discovered in the catalog of the Antemis company from Tomsk in the section seeds of summer flowers a description of this plant, rarely bred in our country.

I read: “The whole plant is like a big flower! In spring and summer it is decorated with red-purple leaves, and in autumn with luxurious clusters of seeds. It was a huge success at the flower exhibition.”

The same crop is also offered in the vegetable section as a decoration and component of salads, soups, and borscht; a decoction of the seeds is useful for stomach diseases.

In September 1998, from the famous Chelyabinsk gardener and collector of garden rarities Valentina Borisovna Egorova from the Yantar garden, I received a whole handful of red quinoa seeds as a gift and in late autumn I scattered them into a furrow 50 meters long.

Early in the spring, bright red quinoa shoots appeared. Its seeds begin to germinate at temperatures of only 2-4 degrees Celsius and tolerate sharp frosts down to minus 6.

When thinning out the seedlings, I used the extra young plants as early lettuces and spinach, as well as for seasoning first courses, which were greatly decorated with quinoa. By autumn, without special care, the red quinoa had reached the height of a man, the crimson bushes were covered with panicles of bright crimson achenes. It was simply impossible to walk by and not admire the bright bouquet burning with fire.- Everything in the Tomsk company’s catalog corresponded to reality.

In October, I collected fairly well-ripened seeds (they can be stored for up to three years).

Cut stems, after scalding their ends with boiling water, were preserved in bouquets for a long time.

Red garden quinoa is also interesting for amateur vegetable growers, because it is from the goosefoot family, that is, the closest relatives of beets and spinach.

Its leaves are rich in proteins, ascorbic acid, rutin and other vitamins and are distinguished by a rich composition of mineral salts.

To obtain high-quality tender greens (leaves and tops of shoots), fertile, irrigated soils are needed. It is better to sow this crop at several times, starting in early spring, without waiting for the soil in the garden to ripen, in beds prepared in the fall. I removed the leaves in the morning, pulled out young plants by the roots, and tore off the large lower leaves of plants with flower stalks and used them immediately. The leaves can be salted like cabbage, added to all pickles, put in borscht, where they replace beets, in green cabbage soup and okroshka, dried for tea, made into purees, decorated with leaves and inflorescences ready meals. Ground seeds are added to flour when baking bread.

Red juice, like food coloring, can be used for coloring alcoholic drinks, jelly, compotes.

I think that red garden quinoa, as an unpretentious, very productive, earliest vitamin crop, which in addition has outstanding decorative properties, will find a worthy place in the gardens of the Urals and Siberians.

In conclusion, I enclose a few culinary recipes(according to A. M. Rusanov).

Filling for pies

Pour boiling water over young nettle leaves and shoots (500 g) and leave for 5 minutes, place in a sieve, let the water drain, chop together with quinoa (500 g), mix with boiled rice (100 g) and chopped boiled eggs (5 pcs. ), salt to taste.

Soup dressing

Chop dried quinoa and nettle (1 cup each), sift through a sieve, add 3 tbsp. spoons of cumin seeds and mix thoroughly. Use as a seasoning for first courses, adding 5 minutes before. until ready.

Soup

Pour semolina (50 g) into boiling water (1 liter) and cook, stirring. Finely chop the washed quinoa and sorrel leaves (200 g each), add salt, add to the soup and bring to readiness. Before serving, add finely chopped green onions, cucumbers (40 g), dill (5 g), sour cream (20 g), and salt to taste into the chilled soup.

Salads

Wash the leaves of quinoa and green onions, dry them, chop them, and place them on a dish. Place boiled egg slices on top, add salt and mayonnaise.

Quinoa, dill and parsley, protein boiled egg finely chop and mix. Season with boiled yolk, mashed with sour cream, lightly salt.

Paste

Grind quinoa and sorrel leaves (50 g each) in a meat grinder, add butter(100 g), mustard (10 g) and salt to taste, mix everything and use for sandwiches.

Max Maksimovich Nichepurnov , agronomist, 456531, Chelyabinsk region, Sosnovsky district, Sargazy village, st. Michurina, 16-1, Nichepurnov Max Maksimovich.

Garden quinoa is not an enemy, but a friend

This plant has different names; mountain spinach, French lettuce, Swiss chard, garden quinoa. It will decorate your garden, will be indispensable in many spring and summer dishes, and can also be used as a medicinal plant.

But for the vast majority of gardeners, the word “quinoa” means the mortal enemy of the garden, no matter what is written after this terrible word. This name really shocks everyone.

Yes, this is understandable, because in the minds of gardeners, quinoa is in the first row of the most malicious weeds next to wheatgrass, thistle, dandelion, wormwood, although in lean and war years it, along with nettles, more than once saved our ancestors from starvation.

Only one plant from this genus has been introduced into cultivation - garden quinoa, which has two varieties: a salad form with green and yellow leaves and a decorative form with blood-red leaves.

Forms with green and yellowish leaves can be grown in a slightly shaded area. And red-leaved quinoa loves open, sunlit areas.

Garden quinoa- annual herbaceous plant from the goosefoot family. This is a very rare vegetable crop in amateur gardens and vegetable gardens.

As a vegetable cultivated plant, quinoa was known back in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Currently, it is widely cultivated in Western Europe and the USA.

This is a very tall and powerful plant. Its stem is erect, pyramidal in shape, up to 1.8 meters high. The leaves are triangular, spear-shaped at the base, toothed, red, yellow, green or variegated in color. The flowers are very small, collected in bunches into spike-shaped inflorescences. The seeds are small, covered with a hard shell, which is why they remain in the soil for a long time without germinating.

Now many varieties of this plant are known, but garden red, garden yellow and garden green are in greatest demand.

Garden quinoa- A very cold-resistant plant, tolerates frosts down to minus 5°C. The most favorable temperature for plant development is 15-18°C. Garden quinoa is undemanding in terms of soil fertility, but is very demanding in terms of moisture content in the soil, and at the same time it can withstand short-term drought well. But in this case, the quinoa quickly forms a flowering stem, its leaves become coarse and become unsuitable for food.

They eat juicy greens that have a salty taste. The collected leaves are used fresh or cooked, much in the same way as chard and spinach. Moreover, it must be used as soon as possible, since the products wither rather quickly and lose their presentation.

Having virtually no odor, when adding onions, peppers, garlic, and spicy herbs, it is an ideal ingredient for preparing a wide variety of salads, side dishes, and various soups, while simultaneously enriching them with protein. They also make delicious cutlets from it. The leaves are also fermented and pickled for future use.

In Western European countries, quinoa greens are widely used as... winter vitamin seasoning for first and second courses, sauces, gravies. To do this, the prepared leaves must be dried and ground into powder.

Red-leaved quinoa is also indispensable as a general strengthening vitamin remedy. Quinoa leaves have a rich chemical composition. They contain vegetable proteins and various mineral salts, rich in vitamin C- up to 95 mg/%, rutin- up to 110 mg/%. They contain significantly less oxalic acid than the famous spinach. And in terms of yield, garden quinoa far surpasses spinach and accumulates nitrates significantly less than spinach.

Quinoa can be used in other ways medicine. From the herb, for example, you can prepare a poultice for radiculitis and hemorrhoids. The leaves are applied to wounds, tea from the leaves is drunk for hoarseness, colds, and coughs. Infusions are used for rickets and constipation. The juice of the plant expels worms well, cleanses the intestines, and removes unnecessary substances from the body.

The juice is prepared from young leaves and stems of quinoa, they are passed through a meat grinder and squeezed. Drink 0.25 cups with 1 tbsp. a spoonful of honey 20 minutes before meals 2-3 times a day. The juice is used to lubricate abrasions as it has a remarkable antibacterial effect.

Quinoa- the earliest of all vitamin plants and can compete with spinach and early lettuces, but it is much more profitable than spinach, since its leaves are much larger and it does not bolt as quickly as it does. To have quinoa on the table all summer, it is sown at several times with an interval of 20-30 days.

Garden quinoa- It is a very cold-resistant plant and therefore does not require any special conditions for its cultivation. However, a good harvest of tender greens can only be obtained in well-prepared beds with constant watering. It is very profitable to grow it as early greens in a greenhouse.

The soil for garden quinoa is prepared in the fall: it is dug to a bayonet depth, first adding 1 square meter. m, half a bucket of rotted compost, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of superphosphate and 1 teaspoon of potassium fertilizer. In the spring, as soon as the soil allows, it is loosened to a depth of 8-10 cm, adding 1 teaspoon of ammonium nitrate per 1 square meter. meter.

It is cultivated by sowing seeds in open ground from early spring, as soon as the soil allows, and then two weeks later until the onset of hot weather. In conditions- Due to short daylight hours, flowering occurs later, and the yield of green mass is higher.

In gardens, garden quinoa is sown in rows with a row spacing of 35-40 cm. The seeds are planted to a depth of 2-3 cm. After sowing, the soil must be rolled. And if you are going to use quinoa only as an early spring salad plant, then you can simply sow the seeds in the garden in bulk. The seeds germinate quickly in 6-7 days.

From the first days of emergence, it is necessary to provide the plants with sufficient nutritional area. They are thinned out, gradually increasing the distance between them in the row so that the plants do not touch each other. With optimal feeding area, they develop very quickly and are ready for harvesting after 25-32 days.

Caring for quinoa during the growing season is simple: remove weeds in a timely manner and loosen the soil. It is removed when the plants reach 18-25 cm in height, uprooting or cutting off the stem at soil level. It is advisable to use fresh herbs immediately.

Quinoa easily reproduces by self-sowing, so once you have grown a plant with seeds, you don’t have to worry- next year they will sprout beautifully.

Caring for plants involves loosening the rows and removing weeds. In the phase of two true leaves, the seedlings are thinned out, leaving a distance of 15-20 cm between the young plants, and after another 10 days this distance is increased to 30 cm. Plants are fertilized on poorly prepared soil after thinning with nitrogen fertilizers (1 teaspoon of urea per 10 liters of water ). During dry periods, plants are watered.

To obtain fresh greens throughout the summer, repeat sowings are done every 12-15 days.

To obtain seeds, the seed bush is not touched until autumn. To prevent the shoots from falling, they must be tied to a support. In autumn, seed plants are cut and threshed. In seed stores, you most often find good varieties Ogorodnaya yellow, Ogorodnaya green, Garden red, etc.

Red quinoa is not only a healthy food product, it is very decorative, so it can be used in flower beds and bouquets. To preserve the decorative appearance of the bush, the flower stalks are cut off. Although after the seeds ripen, the plant looks even more beautiful: the bracts covering the fruit form bright crimson clusters. By autumn the entire bush becomes red-purple. Quinoa inflorescences look good in bouquets with white asters.

Garden quinoa, like all its wild “relatives,” is prone to self-sowing. But this should not be allowed, as it heavily clogs the area.

V. A. Loiko

(Ural Gardener No. 21, 2013)