#SweetPotato #TrueSeed came in the mail!!!

It's from one of those shady sellers that claims to have blue strawberries and such, so I'll start the plants inside and do my best to figure out if they're really sweet potatoes, or something else in the morning glory family that's easier to get seeds from. (Sweet potatoes are perennials in their natural habitat and don't necessarily produce seed in their first year.)

My goal with these is to grow sweet potatoes that have some real genetic variety (anything that's not true seed is clonally propagated with uniform genetics), keep them outside in autumn to see which plants are the most resilient against cold, and keep those plants alive (likely indoors in winter) long enough to get second generation seeds. And then keep going. Eventually they'll be a #landrace of sweet potatoes that can handle Ireland's cool climate for more of the year.

If you want to try plant breeding yourself, have a look at Joseph Lofthouse's writing https://www.motherearthnews.com/tag/-joseph-lofthouse/