Post by thegrit on Oct 8, 2016 20:18:24 GMT -5
I'm just starting to evaluate seed for my first round grow out of potatoes at my new location. I prefer to harvest potatoes as creamers during the growing season for a high turn over (and my past fancy restaurant type customers) and (sometimes as another varitety) a good stock of keepers that are high enough quality to keep in stock to sell with onions, winter squash, and whatever I can get to survive in the greenhouse during the winter. I also am looking for nutritional punch, flesh color, and always flavor. I haven't grown TPS but it would be ideal to find a selection for creamers that can be grown exclusively from seed. Lastly a side pet project is developing purple peruvians (my favorite) that will make it here and maybe some crosses from there.
Any feedback before I acquire seed is much appreciated. I'm combing the internet and getting my first taste of GRIN (any tips on researching varieties there would be so helpful. It rivals the GIS mapping websites at my novice experience ugh!) In your experience are the accession folks amenable to helping amateur breeders?- I was thinking about reaching out to them.
Where do you pefer to get TPS seed? Do you know any varieties or lines I should take a look at?
I'll post soon with my short list once I've narrowed it down. I have varying degrees of irrigation intervention and fertility setup so I can see how far I can push drought tolerance. I'm most excited for my zero intervention bed but I suspect that will be a total crop failure.
a bit about my climate copied from my intro post:
I'm in N. Oregon, just east of the cascades. Our neighbors dryland wheat farm. It is arid, windy, hot, cold and everything in between! We average only 9"-14" precipitation a year and our last frost is the first week of June, first frost anytime after Oct 1st. Summers are exceedingly hot, many weeks above 90 and several above 100. They call us zone 6 but the occasional super cold spell kills everything off that isn't hardy to zone 5. I really like a good winter for my garden but I'm worried about how the thawing I noticed last year in February and March will impact my overwintered and earliest plantings. If you are in a similar climate I'm eager to hear from you.
Read more: alanbishop.proboards.com/thread/8896/hello-east-cascade-foothills#ixzz4MXtsCFTb
Any feedback before I acquire seed is much appreciated. I'm combing the internet and getting my first taste of GRIN (any tips on researching varieties there would be so helpful. It rivals the GIS mapping websites at my novice experience ugh!) In your experience are the accession folks amenable to helping amateur breeders?- I was thinking about reaching out to them.
Where do you pefer to get TPS seed? Do you know any varieties or lines I should take a look at?
I'll post soon with my short list once I've narrowed it down. I have varying degrees of irrigation intervention and fertility setup so I can see how far I can push drought tolerance. I'm most excited for my zero intervention bed but I suspect that will be a total crop failure.
a bit about my climate copied from my intro post:
I'm in N. Oregon, just east of the cascades. Our neighbors dryland wheat farm. It is arid, windy, hot, cold and everything in between! We average only 9"-14" precipitation a year and our last frost is the first week of June, first frost anytime after Oct 1st. Summers are exceedingly hot, many weeks above 90 and several above 100. They call us zone 6 but the occasional super cold spell kills everything off that isn't hardy to zone 5. I really like a good winter for my garden but I'm worried about how the thawing I noticed last year in February and March will impact my overwintered and earliest plantings. If you are in a similar climate I'm eager to hear from you.
Read more: alanbishop.proboards.com/thread/8896/hello-east-cascade-foothills#ixzz4MXtsCFTb