- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
A Tulare resident reported to the Visalia Times-Delta the appearance of a plant in his garden that is producing potatoes in the ground and tomatoes on the stems.
Reporter Hillary Meeks inquired with UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor Michelle LeStrange about a phenomenon the gardener said he has never seen before in 60 years of gardening. Le Strange said it could be a natural anomaly.
"Several types of mutations occur in nature and occasionally we can visually see the result," LeStrange wrote in an e-mail to the...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
A potato rainbow appeared on the grass at Hart Park in Bakersfield this week, offering farmers the opportunity to see a wide array of potato varieties developed by breeders across the United States and Canada.
The potatoes are the product of the UC Cooperative Extension and California Potato Research Advisory Board's Kern County Potato Variety Trial, which has been collecting potato variety data since the 1970s, according to an article about the annual field day in yesterday's Bakersfield Californian.
"The piles at the park contained every kind of potato imaginable. Big ones. Small ones. Lumpy ones....