Quinoa On our gardens - a frequent guest. Today, more than a hundred of its species are known. It is covered with a dense carpet of personal plots, vacant lots, river banks, gardens, fields and vegetable gardens. Weeds in the country - this is a serious problem for the owners, because most often the usual weeding is not enough to once and for all get rid of unwanted growth.
Did you know? Out of habit, we consider quinoa a weed plant, but it is also a nourishing vegetable plant, which very often was eaten not only by our ancestors, but also by the Romans, the French, the Germans and the Greeks. In addition, quinoa can save us from many diseases. The plant has no contraindications and side effects, which allows it to take all without exception.
Let's take a look at what a quinoa is and how to grow these weeds in the country.
Quinoa: weed description
Quinoa weed - An annual plant belonging to the family of hares. Quinoa unpretentious, and even on technically developed soils very quickly in height reaches more than a meter. The quinoa grass has a straight stalk, in the upper part of which alternately elongated are placed, and the leaves having opposite arrangement are below, large, triangular, with small teeth along the edge. More than 20 popular names of weed are known: flour grass, mar, wild spinach. The grass quinoa was named a whitish plaque on the leaves. It produces nondescript green flowers, gathered in pancakes. The plant has a long generous flowering, at the end of which a lot of small nuts are formed on it. They generously sow the land from late August to mid-October. Quinoa is almost devoid of taste and smell.
Despite the fact that in the world there are a huge number of species of quinoa, for amateur gardeners, two types are the most dangerous - garden and ordinary. Garden quinoa is a vegetable plant that has melliferous, decorative and healing properties. In cooking, its leaves are used in fresh or salted form.
Did you know? Quinoa is more useful than the famous spinach, as it contains much less amount of oxalic acid.
Garden quinoa has large leaves. Visually, the plant looks quite attractive, due to its wide color palette. Quinoa is quite unpretentious and can be successfully grown in any conditions. Common Quinoa grows well in temperate and tropical climates. This group includes plants that are important from an agricultural point of view: shrub, semi-shrub, perennial and common. Some of its species are covered with the finest trichomes, thus creating the impression that the whole bush is sprinkled with white flour.
How to deal with the quinoa in the country, practical tips
Weeds are a real disaster for every summer resident. Especially bothering gardeners quinoa. The quinoa in the garden spreads at the speed of sound, and therefore, if we do not start to destroy the weed in a timely manner, it will very quickly cover the entire plot. People have come up with a variety of ways to deal with the quinoa. However, it is not worth it so zealously to get rid of this plant, since its complete destruction can disrupt the ecological balance. Therefore, it is better to leave alone quinoa growing in its natural environment.
Important! In the spring and early summer, bees have enough plants from which they diligently collect pollen - buckwheat, oak, elm, maple, hazel, linden and sunflower. But after July ends, there are practically no flowering plants suitable for collecting pollen, and then a quinoa, which can bloom even in late autumn, just by the way.
Quinoa is unpretentious and has high adaptive abilities, which greatly complicates its destruction and forces us to study in more detail the question of how to deal with a weed.
Mechanical treatment of land, how to destroy the quinoa at the dacha
Traditionally, the main method of dealing with quinoa is the mechanical removal of the plant and its parts from the site. For this, in spring and autumn, when digging or plowing the soil, the plant roots are carefully selected from the soil. Digging is done using a fork, since this inventory does not practically injure the rhizome of the quinoa, but rather helps to extract the plant as accurately as possible from the soil, which prevents its spread. Experienced gardeners assure that after such cleaning you can say goodbye to the quinoa for many years. Remember that for these purposes it is not recommended to use a shovel, since this inventory significantly reduces the efficiency of manipulation.
How to deal with quinoa chemicals
The chemical method of dealing with quinoa is very popular with gardeners. Herbicides are a powerful weapon against the sprouts of quinoa. However, when using them, care should be taken to ensure that aggressive substances do not fall on the cultivated plants, and the saving “wand” does not become a “sword of punishment”. And for this you need to comply with safety rules when applying herbicides. To destroy the quinoa plant breeders use the systemic herbicide of continuous action - "Roundup", the active substance of which is glyphosate. 
If the thickets of quinoa to be destroyed are in close proximity to garden plants, then experts advise not to spray the drug, but apply it with a syringe to the growing point of the quinoa shoots. After applying the "Roundup" weed withering begins after 3 - 4 days. A huge plus is the fact that soil bacteria contribute to the decomposition of the drug and after only 18 - a maximum of 45 days from its use will not remain a trace. “Roundup” is a low toxicity approved by the Ministry of Health.
Did you know? Malicious weed quinoa has many beneficial properties: it perfectly cleans the body from toxins, removes toxins. In addition, it is considered an excellent laxative for those who adhere to the grain-carbohydrate diet and systematically suffer from constipation.
Excellent results are obtained by processing the tornado quinoa. But in order to achieve the maximum effect from its use, the processing of quinoa should be carried out in dry weather. The fact is that if the plant is treated with a plant in rainy or wet weather, only the ground part of the weed will perish, and its roots will remain unaffected and soon their new shoots will appear on the site.
Did you know? Especially dangerous is considered to be quinoa for people suffering from increased allergenic background. Together with ambrosia and wormwood, it constitutes the top three most dangerous allergens and is the undisputed leader among the causes of seasonal allergies.
An effective remedy for the destruction of quinoa is considered to be the drug "Lazurit", which is a herbicide of a special purpose. When processing the soil the soil should be loose. The treatment is carried out in calm and dry weather. After processing the site, the drug retains its activity for one and a half months, which completely eliminates the wearer from debilitating weeds.
How to get rid of quinoa in the garden, preventive measures
Quinoa is a common weed plant that can quickly capture the entire area, which causes the plant breeder to look for effective ways to prevent.
Important! Another important reason for rejecting the complete destruction of quinoa is that it actively draws salt from the soil. This property of quinoa is especially useful for owners of sites with saline soils, as its cultivation contributes to improving the quality of the soil.
Today, many methods have been developed that prevent the appearance of quinoa at the site, from debilitating weeds, autumn treatment of plots with herbicides to mulching. And which one to choose depends only on the capabilities of the gardener himself.
Did you know? Well-dried and frayed quinoa bushes perfectly enrich the soil with nitrogen and without the use of chemical fertilizers.
The use of herbicides is advisable during the autumn treatment of neglected beds. During this period, on the plots, as a rule, all the vegetables have already been removed, and therefore it is possible to conduct a total processing of the plots. Chemicals attract plant growers by the fact that just a couple of drops of money are enough to get rid of quinoa. In addition, herbicides are environmentally safe and if you cultivate the site in the fall, then in the spring you can safely grow vegetables on it. Despite the fact that many consider mulching an innovative technique, it was actively used by our ancestors. True, unlike modern plant growers, they did not use special coating films and nonwoven materials, but simply covered the space around the plants with sawdust, straw, boards, pieces of toli, and even just thick cardboard.
Black film and nonwovens do not transmit light to the seeds of weed, which completely suppresses its growth. In addition, experienced gardeners practice the joint planting of various crops, which also does not allow sprouting of quinoa to germinate. Sometimes a biological method is used to accelerate weed growth. To this end, in the spring, after the snow melts, cover the whole area with a transparent film. Under such a shelter, the seeds of the quinoa germinate much faster, after which the shoots simply destroy. 
In the 1930s, in order to accelerate the growth of weeds, America tried to tillage the soil with a 6% solution of ethyl alcohol and water: weed seedlings appear much faster in this case, after which they are removed by any convenient mechanical method. But due to the high cost of the method is not widespread. Of course, quinoa is a malicious weed, but there is a great benefit for our organism in its leaves, and therefore it is not necessary to destroy its shoots, you can simply eat them.
