Source for staple seeds and tubers--especially potatoes!

[Atash Hagmahani]

This is where you can find Tom Wagner's tomato seeds and potato sampler packages.

He also has packs of less varied commercial varieties. If all else fails you can probably even negotiate specifics direct with THE MAN, especially if you tell him you're a member of my website.

www.newworldcrops.com

[The Future]

Highly anticipated.  Good to see paypal for payment.  Also good to hear Rob's voice, see video.  Now trying to pick which ones to NOT buy...

[Wellspring]

Wow!
What a labor of love.
Gratitude to both of you for being such impt ambassadors of genetic diversity.
Will order soon.

[silverseeds]

       Great job atash, and tom! I wish you both luck, and that you reach all your proposed goals and then some. Id get Alan, to post it to the master seed list thread on homegrown goodness. I know a few folks who use that list a lot. (compiled mostly by mjc which must of been a task) 

       VERY glad to see you intend to focus on staples, as you know it is a major search to get such things. I will have many to share with you as they prove themselves to me. (and I get seeds)

[Tom Wagner]

Atash has been a great resource to get a website together. I could never do this by myself.

Where to stop listing varieties of tomatoes and potatoes....If I wanted to list all the different crosses, recombinants, open pollinated lines that I have created over the years....it would take more restraint than I have to keep the lists below a couple of thousands.  One of the fascinating elements of my breeding lines is that none of my potato true seeds will breed true and likewise, a sizable portion of my tomato lines will still segregate for interesting traits...allowing customers to be part of a exponentially driven diversity that could create countless new varieties and clones.

Twenty years ago I had a tomato variety stable from a breeding pedigree of 95 varieties!  I have given up hope of having a database that can be published to show what has happened since then.

Hmmm...... I wonder if anyone would be interested in seed from a variety of tomatoes that were picked ripe back in September and are still keeping in my garage...???  Not that anyone should keep tomatoes that long but would you want seed of it?  Should I show to Atash for a second opinion of its keeping ability....naw

Tom Wagner

[darwinslair]

Tom, for your website you should have maybe 50 or so various tomatoes that you offer at some regular pack price which you have pre-packed and complete descriptions, and then charge 3-5X for the rest and have a much more sparse description just to steer people in a way that creates less work for you but still leaves it open for those looking for rare germ plasm in such a way that it makes if financially adventagous to you to provide it.

I am so glad to see your endeavors expanding.

Tom K

[silverseeds]

  Id love a good long keeping tomatoe. Ive got a few now. I think gardening is going to keep growing as a field, and with that likely the interest in better storing crops. I know long storage things are not known for their taste, but they taste as good as any out of season things I can find locally.

[bunkie]

good looking website there tom and atash!

i'd rather not do paypal tom. can i send you my order and a check?

and i'd be interested in some of the keeper seed in your garage.

[The Future]

INTERESTED!!!! (but aren't I always?)

[tigger]

Getting it out there in time was a big step.  Best of luck!

[The Future]

Atash: I note TW is swamped with (good) work with the site.  Just wanted you to know I got 7 email notifications (over about a 30 minute period) of shipping of my first order.  (yes I put in a second order already... )

[Atash Hagmahani]

I'm sorry. I'm not sure why that happened. I can see why you would get two, because the order was placed in two batches.

Paypal wasn't designed for handling a complete order-entry system. I considered subscribing to other services that work on top of paypal, but they too have significant limitations, and some of them are rather expensive on top of it. Typically you pay not for a complete turn-key system, but for having it dumbed down enough for non-technical merchants to handle it. A really complete off-the-shelf solution might involve hiring consultants to do some custom javascript programming and implementing their own code to do stuff like look up sales tax for local sales, which are down to zip + 4 granularity. Two people who live in the same zip code don't necessarily pay the same sales tax, due to it being applied at at least 3 different jurisdictional levels (state, county, city), plus we have "special revenue districts". 

Other people have systems that work better, and my guess is that to a certain degree, it was luck finding someone to handle the merchant systems right the first time.

Now that the system is up-and-running, we have enough momentum to have a chance at working on process improvement. 

[The Future]

not a complaint...just a heads up so you can fix whatever the bug is.  my only complaint is you putting up so many seeds...please stop...or I will keep ordering more varieties...

[Atash Hagmahani]

Wheat prices hit a 2-year record. Which doesn't seem that long, but in any case the bull market continues. And remember, as Dame mentioned, too much snow melt could result in drowned winter wheat and conditions making it impossible to plant spring wheat.

We've got some wheat in the field already, and more going in.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-09/wheat-advances-nearing-29-month-high-as-drought-threatens-china-crops.html

Wheat rose to the highest in more than two years in Chicago as drought threatened crops in China, the world’s biggest grower, and as governments increased purchases to contain inflation and protests.

Wheat has surged 83 percent in Chicago and doubled in Paris in the past year as drought in Russia and floods in Canada and Australia hurt crops. Countries in the Middle East and North Africa are speeding up grain purchases after rising food prices contributed to riots and protests. Now China is facing severe drought in the main winter-wheat growing region.

“Wheat is at the center of issues for the market now,” said Han Sung Min, a broker at Korea Exchange Bank Futures Co. in Seoul. “China’s poor crop weather has fueled concern over tightening supplies after some countries in North Africa and the Middle East rushed to secure food.”

[hippiechick]

Love the website. You guys did a great job!!!