Uploaded February 2017 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Starting my first TPS potatoes from seed for the 2017 season, and showing off some of my 2016 TPS potato tubers from various selections.
I'm also highly recommending Rebsie Fairholm's book, The Lost Art of Potato Breeding. It details breeding potatoes via hand pollination, collecting and saving True Potato Seed, and growing out the seedlings into new potato varieties. A very readable and complete book, with accurate information without becoming obtusely technical. I"m often fond of obtusely technical, but Rebsie got it done without resorting to that.
I also recommend reading her blog for more on the subject.
daughterofthesoil.blogspot.com
For more on growing on TPS seedlings, I like the wmontaniez channel
youtube.com/channel/UCOVTowWz5ACfuryb1pNJqJA
This is a very complete and informative video of a webinar on commercial public potato breeding by Dr. Walter De Jong from Cornell University. youtube.com/watch?v=7bbWJQ4XnDM
Starting my first TPS potatoes from seed for the 2017 season, and showing off some of my 2016 TPS potato tubers from various selections.
I'm also highly recommending Rebsie Fairholm's book, The Lost Art of Potato Breeding. It details breeding potatoes via hand pollination, collecting and saving True Potato Seed, and growing out the seedlings into new potato varieties. A very readable and complete book, with accurate information without becoming obtusely technical. I"m often fond of obtusely technical, but Rebsie got it done without resorting to that.
I also recommend reading her blog for more on the subject.
daughterofthesoil.blogspot.com
For more on growing on TPS seedlings, I like the wmontaniez channel
youtube.com/channel/UCOVTowWz5ACfuryb1pNJqJA
This is a very complete and informative video of a webinar on commercial public potato breeding by Dr. Walter De Jong from Cornell University. youtube.com/watch?v=7bbWJQ4XnDM
