"Tim Challenger" wrote in message
news:1109315361.069fcc064ca7ecf26d712b4a0296e59c@t eranews...
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.

I have never grown potatoes from seed nor indeed ever seen any seeds other
than tubers but onions I have grown from seed and with good success
although rather labour intensive compared with sets. I'm not sure about
the rules these days but it was not possible to legally send any onion
seeds from UK to Ireland although the seed merchants would happily send
other vegetable seed.


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Chris Thomas
West Cork
Ireland