Heirloom varieties

They store well for winter eating. Potatoes are planted as tubers, never as seed. Always use certified disease-free tubers. In the case of some heirloom varieties, "micropropagated" plants may also be available, usually by mail order from specialty suppliers. 

You can grow more unusual crops and old or "lost" varieties that you cannot buy (see Heirloom vegetables, overleaf). 

Heritage potatoes Highland Burgundy Red deft) and Salad Blue right). Gardeners prepared to search for heirloom seed potatoes have a choice of around 100 varieties. 

Jennifer s cereal mix this year I grew out a huge variety of heirlooms in one planting all mixed up that I m gonna use in a cereal mix. So I can save the seed without separating it all out. Sort of like gene cesspool cereal mix. ... 

Heirloom plant An older open-pollinated variety that is no longer used in modern large-scale agriculture. Often selected by an individual and then passed down from generation to generation. 

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