On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:13:32 GMT, Ted Richardson wrote:

"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
.
Several merchants sell potato microplants.
These are laboratory bred and are virus free.

You wouldn't get much of a crop the first year.
but should get plenty of sets for the following year.
Also I don't know how they would travel round the world.

Edwin Tucker sells 11 varieties
http://www.edwintucker.com/Seeds/seeds%20index.htm

Ted R

Cheers Ted!
I'm not too bothered about getting a crop straight away - I guess you grow
the seeds one year to get a crop of seed potatoes to plant the next.
Microplants would be great of course, but I think they may suffer in the
post - assuming someone were prepared to send them. They'd be in the post
for a week. I'll investigate that.



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Tim C.