Review: Clancy TPS Potato Variety

Tuber of the TPS potato (Solanum tuberosum) variety 'Clancy'

Clancy is a 2019 introduction from Bejo Seeds, a large breeder and seed producer, based in the Netherlands, who have trademarked the phrase, “True Botanical Potato Seed,” thereby cornering the market on redundancy, I guess.  A friend who ordered more than he needed kindly sent me the remainder of his packet and I thought it […]

The Highland Potato with Its Own Song

Flower of the potato (Solanum ajanhuiri) variety 'Jancko Ajawiri'

Solanum ajanhuiri is a native Andean potato, grown at the highest elevations suitable for cultivation (around 13,000 feet) in Bolivia and Peru, where it can survive due to its frost and drought resistance.  There is a Bolivian folk song for the planting of this potato, given here from Huaman (1980), after translation from Aymara to […]