{"id":26072,"date":"2020-07-18T12:16:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=26072"},"modified":"2020-07-18T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:22:26","slug":"henrys-quinoa-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=26072","title":{"rendered":"Henry’s Quinoa Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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At the V\u00e6res Venner community garden, I\u2019ve planted 6 or 7 different Good King Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus; stolt henrik) plants from different sources. In my book you can read how this plant which is closely related to annual quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), is probably the most promising perennial grain. Even in my cold climate, it can give two yields per season and the first yield is far ahead of annual grains here! I\u2019m hoping that one of the varieties may have slightly larger seeds (the seeds are smaller than quinoa). The only drawbacks are that the seed are difficult to clean by hand. I winnow the seed and then do the final clean. Two of my 6-7 plants were harvested here. <\/span>I\u2019m dreaming of perennial grains being grown on a large scale in the future, even in my climate\u2026there are many benefits including less energy needed for ploughing, less fertiliser and irrigation requirements and higher carbon sequestration than annual grains. However, we do urgently need breeding programs to try to produce improved larger seed varieties.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n