permaculture

[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

Sharon,
It's already been done for you and it resides at an awesome database created 
by Plants
for A Future
<http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/index.html> The entire site is also mirrored 
at a
number of other sites around the world. The link above should have all the 
data. As
far as plant breeding, take a look at the book Breed Your Own Vegetable 
Varieties by
Carole Deppe available from the Permaculture Activist ($28 + 10%shipping) PO 
Box 1209,
Black Mountain NC 28711. The PFAF folks should be able to tell you what 
software they
used for their database.
Keith

Sharon Gordon wrote:

> Can anyone recommend some good software for cataloging the
> characteristics of  various varieties of plants and also that would
> be helpful for plant breeding?
> Sharon
> gordonse@one.net