Chenopodium, Goosefoot, Inca Wheat, Pigweed, Quinoa 'Brilliant Rainbow'

Very easy to grow! The full size of this plant can be 5 or 6 feet in the ground. I have successfully grown them in containers ranging fro...Read Morem recycled half gallon milk cartons to 5 gal. nursery pots to a height of 3 feet. The harvest is dwarfed like the plants, but still decent. The grains also store very well and it's fun to watch the plants change color as they mature and set seed.

The only trouble I have had is they are attractive to leaf miners, but pruning off the effected leaves does the trick and doesn't hurt the plant.

From your friends at Botanical Interests: Annual. Blooms late summer to fall. Full sun. 4'-6' tall. Dazzling colors of hot pink, royal bu...Read Morergundy, red, pumpkin orange, light yellow, creamy white, and lime green. Use at the back of the flower border for a textural splash of bright colors or grow for the delicious high protein grain. Quinoa grains can be cooked like rice and are highly nutritious. The Incas called quinoa, 'the mother of all grains'. It was planted with a golden tool and offered to the sun in golden vases during solstice. Outside, sow around average last frost date when soil temperatures are near 60 degrees. Inside, sow 1-2 weeks before average last frost date. (Warm climates, sow in late summer of early fall.)