In article , Charlie wrote:
The french fingerlings Steve referenced were one of the varieties I
was going to try, along with LaRatte, if I recall. There were some
others that don't come to mind right now.
The German Butterballs worked out so well, that I'll expand my planting
of them next year, but since gardeners are a fickle lot, always staring
over the fence to see what the neighbor is growing. I'll probably try
the Fr. Fingerlings, La Ratte, Adirondack Blue, Kerr's Pink, or, maybe,
All Red. I'm sure I won't plant all of them, but Gary intrigued me with
the idea of colors and the description of LaRatte is irresistible. These
choices are based on responses to my query about potatoes and the
Cornell gardening site:
http://vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu/ma...=42&sortBy=ove
rallrating&order=DESC&searchIn=1
The Cornell ranking appears to be based on responses to the site. It is
odd that, although LaRatte and Princess LaRatte are supposed to be the
same, or at the least, very similar, yet the Princess has 4 stars for
yield
http://vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu/ma...3170&filterBy=
&filterBylocation=&filterByfrostfree=
and the LaRatte has only 2
http://vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu/ma...1454&filterBy=
&filterBylocation=&filterByfrostfree=
It's probably just the sampling size of the people who have rated the
potatoes, but I'll try to find the Princess, nonetheless.
I'll start locally, then try Seed Savers Exchange:
http://www.seedsavers.org/Items.aspx?hierId=88
and then I'll google, if I have to. Locally, the potatoes will arrive at
the local nursery in February, which is a 2 month jump on what I can
find on line.
Again, thanks for the feed back that I have gotten, and may still get.
It looks as if Jonny's Select Seed has a lock on some of the potatoes. I
went in search of info on Johnny's and came up with the following, which
I think makes for interesting reading.
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/pdf/Who_Owns_Johnnys.pdf
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