@yukongertie1: Do you know which variety you are growing? There’s a guy named Paolo G who is breedidng them to be a crop in Iceland… Beautiful garden btw!
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We tried white ones,reds ,flowering, day neutral…have to admit the varieties are: my friends Kim mothers garden variety…as well as from other growing projects in western Canada.
Iceland is growing Zone 5-6 …so wont work here …we are 2
while tubers are quite hardy and some survive the winter - by the time our soil is thawed deep enough for them to come out it is July… and we get frost regular again in August. But if anyone knows of short grow time varieties I am eager to try again
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Have you joined seed savers exchange? I’m thinking of joining to see what is available in interior Alaska.
we ve tried a wide variety of seed groups…seeds for diversity, seed saver, small wild seed gathering folks. few actually worked out for us- based on the challenge of zone 2 hardiness ( we do regularly go below -40 Celsius, plus a short frost free day season around 60 days without protection, most seeds just don’t work here…Alaska has quite some different zones - between 1 and 5 on coast, and often 120 days frost free. add the problem with there being a border…
for some years we were able to get Denali seeds - now they got together with best cool seeds- website- and I am not sure where they are these days…not Alaska ? check out https://www.uaf.edu/files/ces/publications-db/catalog/anr/HGA-00030.pdf that’s a pretty good guide. we do gather some of our own seeds…but often being biannual we are limited…figured out how to replant roots after winter in rootcellar…so we can grow carrots from seed…yeah
This might be a job for Claytonia ogilviensis (https://claytoniadotorg.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/img_9166.jpg)!
