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  • From: "Mark Ritter" <mnr200 AT charter.net>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Garlic Renaming
  • Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:53:28 -0600

i was surprized to see on the list that Johnnies is renaming garlic .. this
is totally unethical and may be illegal according to USDA regulations and I
was wondering if the garlic seed foundation contacted Johnnies before they
printed that. Johnnies is a very good company and messing with renaming any
heirlooms is really misleading... Id like to know there side of it...

Mark Ritter
www.botanikka.com
650 types of rare and heirloom seeds


> *Johnny's Select Seed doesn't find new garlic varieties; they just re-name
> what they have to increase sales.
>
> *Fulsarium is the big problem in the Northeast -- no one has a reliable
test
> or way to screen for it or to treat it once they have it besides removing
> bad bulbs. Filaree managed to ship out a new, nastier fulsarium strain to
> the Northeast on some of the seed garlic it sent out -- everyone is very
> worried about disease.
>
> *To combat fulsarium, folks are soaking their cloves in either a 10%
bleach
> solution or a 5% sodium hypercloride (I don't think I have the name of
this
> compound right -- it wasn't spelled and he said it really fast -- if
anyone
> else was there, please correct me on this), then rolling them in wood
ashes,
> then planting with gloves on. It appears to eliminate fulsarium that is
on
> the surface of a clove.
>
> *White rot has come in from Asia, it's a huge problem on the West Coast
and
> no one knows what to do about it.
>
> DNA Highlights
>
> Dr. Gayle Volk did DNA fingerprinting on all 400 varieties in the USDA
> collection. She found massive duplication and has her now-famous map of
> garlic DNA.
>
> There are now 10 major cultivars -- 8 hardnecks and 2 softnecks. Garlic
> seed foundation members are planting the "Major 10" and will report which
do
> best where. There are others that are offshoots.
>
> All Porcelain garlic has the same DNA -- Music is the same as German Extra
> Hardy, etc.
>
> The "garlic of origin" was a Purple Stripe.
>
> More information can be requested from the Garlic Seed Foundation at
> http://www.garlicseedfoundation.info/index.htm
>
> Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
> St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth
>
> A mission of
> St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA
19460
>
>
>
> Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
> St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth
>
> A mission of
> St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA
19460
>
>
>
>
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