Adam’s Reviews > Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History > Status Update
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Insight on plant breeding: Vilmorin created a new agricultural cultivar of carrots from wild stock within 4 generations. Later determined this was only possible if wild source was developed in another place. That is, seaside wild carrots can be bred inland, but inland wild carrots can't.
— Aug 04, 2013 12:48PM
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Less than a hundred heirloom varieties are known from before 1800. This owes partially to losses to attrition and genetic drift and partially to the great increase in commercial and amateur plant breeding since 1800.
— Aug 04, 2013 12:49PM
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Soup bunches (a bundle of all the herbs and vegetables necessary for a good cohesive soup) are a neat idea - a lot of labor on the vendor's end, and a seemingly low storage time, but it would certainly help consumers figure out how to use/combine all of the parts of their CSA box (for instance).
— Aug 03, 2013 04:48PM
