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Last nursery job I had I was the dept manager for the herb/veggie dept. I will confess, I hated tomato season. Mostly because I had to figure out which would sell the best out of several dozen offered, and no matter what I ordered, I still had clients all sad I didn’t get some strange strain they wanted. I can tell you that this chart here is for commercial growing and commercially available varieties. You can still find HUNDREDS of varieties of tomatoes, countless lettuces and other produce in independent seed banks (of which there are less than a dozen) and nurseries.
Last nursery job I had I was the dept manager for the herb/veggie dept. I will confess, I hated tomato season. Mostly because I had to figure out which would sell the best out of several dozen offered, and no matter what I ordered, I still had clients all sad I didn’t get some strange strain they wanted. I can tell you that this chart here is for commercial growing and commercially available varieties. You can still find HUNDREDS of varieties of tomatoes, countless lettuces and other produce in independent seed banks (of which there are less than a dozen) and nurseries.
Shaun Burks it can, but bare in mind that most of the varieties are bred by man. Countless generations of selecting certain plants are cross pollinated over and over to create the varieties we have.
Which is not to be confused with GMO, as much as Monsanto wants you to think it is. All the genes in cultivars and varietals belong to that species.
More interesting is how the masses are swayed by marketing and thus dictate what is grown.
For instance, many of the varieties commercially available look beautiful. But taste terrible. We are convinced that a big bright perfectly round tomato will be the best tomato, when in fact many of those cultivars are bred to exhibit bright red roundness, not flavor.
Shaun Burks it can, but bare in mind that most of the varieties are bred by man. Countless generations of selecting certain plants are cross pollinated over and over to create the varieties we have.
Which is not to be confused with GMO, as much as Monsanto wants you to think it is. All the genes in cultivars and varietals belong to that species.
More interesting is how the masses are swayed by marketing and thus dictate what is grown.
For instance, many of the varieties commercially available look beautiful. But taste terrible. We are convinced that a big bright perfectly round tomato will be the best tomato, when in fact many of those cultivars are bred to exhibit bright red roundness, not flavor.
That, I knew already. Just more of us being the driving force there. The ‘just for looks’ approach is rather evident in the species of flower we’ve favored too. (and perhaps to a lesser extent…dogs)
That, I knew already. Just more of us being the driving force there. The ‘just for looks’ approach is rather evident in the species of flower we’ve favored too. (and perhaps to a lesser extent…dogs)
Last nursery job I had I was the dept manager for the herb/veggie dept. I will confess, I hated tomato season. Mostly because I had to figure out which would sell the best out of several dozen offered, and no matter what I ordered, I still had clients all sad I didn’t get some strange strain they wanted. I can tell you that this chart here is for commercial growing and commercially available varieties. You can still find HUNDREDS of varieties of tomatoes, countless lettuces and other produce in independent seed banks (of which there are less than a dozen) and nurseries.
]]>Last nursery job I had I was the dept manager for the herb/veggie dept. I will confess, I hated tomato season. Mostly because I had to figure out which would sell the best out of several dozen offered, and no matter what I ordered, I still had clients all sad I didn’t get some strange strain they wanted. I can tell you that this chart here is for commercial growing and commercially available varieties. You can still find HUNDREDS of varieties of tomatoes, countless lettuces and other produce in independent seed banks (of which there are less than a dozen) and nurseries.
]]>Kinda interesting how supply/demand economics of a single species of primate can be such a driving force of natural selection.
]]>Kinda interesting how supply/demand economics of a single species of primate can be such a driving force of natural selection.
]]>Shaun Burks it can, but bare in mind that most of the varieties are bred by man. Countless generations of selecting certain plants are cross pollinated over and over to create the varieties we have.
Which is not to be confused with GMO, as much as Monsanto wants you to think it is. All the genes in cultivars and varietals belong to that species.
More interesting is how the masses are swayed by marketing and thus dictate what is grown.
For instance, many of the varieties commercially available look beautiful. But taste terrible. We are convinced that a big bright perfectly round tomato will be the best tomato, when in fact many of those cultivars are bred to exhibit bright red roundness, not flavor.
]]>Shaun Burks it can, but bare in mind that most of the varieties are bred by man. Countless generations of selecting certain plants are cross pollinated over and over to create the varieties we have.
Which is not to be confused with GMO, as much as Monsanto wants you to think it is. All the genes in cultivars and varietals belong to that species.
More interesting is how the masses are swayed by marketing and thus dictate what is grown.
For instance, many of the varieties commercially available look beautiful. But taste terrible. We are convinced that a big bright perfectly round tomato will be the best tomato, when in fact many of those cultivars are bred to exhibit bright red roundness, not flavor.
]]>That, I knew already. Just more of us being the driving force there. The ‘just for looks’ approach is rather evident in the species of flower we’ve favored too. (and perhaps to a lesser extent…dogs)
]]>That, I knew already. Just more of us being the driving force there. The ‘just for looks’ approach is rather evident in the species of flower we’ve favored too. (and perhaps to a lesser extent…dogs)
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