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Old 25-02-2005, 07:14 AM
Tim Challenger
 
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Default growing potatoes and onions from seed

Living out in Austria as I do, all I can seem to get my hands on are a
couple of varieties of seed potatoes (unimpressive varieties) and onion
sets of "Stuttgarter Riese" and some generic red sort. So I'm really spoilt
for choice. Not. The variety of vegetables is so poor here that even yellow
tomatoes are treated with suspicion. :-(

I understand there are disease concerns with potatoes being transferred to
and from mainland Europe, I don't want to be responsible for a potato
blight outbreak! That means I can't really get seed potatoes sent out to
me.
I was wondering if it would be feasible to grow potatoes from seed. I'm
sure I could get seed from some specialist growers in the UK. I'm not
really looking for any weird or rare varieties, anything other then
"floury" would do. The same goes for onions - Can anybody tell me if I'm
wasting my time, and if not how and when do I start - any hints and tips
would be very helpful.
Thanks.

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Tim C.