Potatoes/root vegetables forum?

There are forums for tomatoes, lilies, vines, and other specific plants. Personally, I'd like to see a forum dedicated to potatoes, or at least to root vegetables like carrots, potatoes, turnips, etc.

This is for the common good, of course. The fact that I have 22 potato plants in my backyard and am trying (unsuccessfully) to grow various kinds of carrots has nothing to do with it.

Thanks.

I could see a root vegetables forum, but I think potatoes might be too specific. With tomatoes, everyone who messes around with plants tries to grow tomatoes, and lilies and vines cover many different plants. Potatoes are grown more rarely and I don't think they have the varieties, or following, to carry their own forum.

On the other hand the care of root vegetables is quite different from other types of plants. I've considered growing potatoes, but decided I didn't have room right now (container garden), but I would like to do so when I get a house. I think root vegetables are grown often enough and have the varieties to warrant a forum, it's just do they have the following to do so?

You might put up a tread linking to this thread in the vegetables forum, that's where the people who would be interested are most likely to see it.

Random question - would onions and garlic be considered root vegetables, I know they aren't tubers like the plants you mentioned, but you do eat the root section?

Oh, potatoes have a lot of varieties. Right now I'm growing All Blue, Kennebec, and Red Pontiac. There's a lot to choose from.

Yes, I would consider onions and garlic to be root vegetables. They grow underground, after all.

I'd be happy with a root vegetables section.

Actually I'm one of the few gardeners I know of who is not growing tomatoes. I don't care for tomatoes, although I love pasta sauce and I'm considering growing sauce tomatoes next year.

I would love to grow tomatoes, but my "garden" area just doesn't have the sun I would need. I was going to try it anyways this year, but my seeds didn't even sprout, same deal with my morning glories. I think I must have miss stored the seeds or something, since they were stored togather. My onion is more of a science experiment for my future step-daughter than something I was really trying to grow. We had the sprouted onion I found in my pantry and she insisted that we plant it. My garlic was done in by her falling on the plants and breaking the stems. I was hoping they would come back, but at this point I think I need to just see if the garlic itself is salvageable. I guess I do have some spring onions or scallops that I got at from the farm here at school and stuck in some dirt so I didn't have to eat them right away, but that's more like sticking something in the fridge than growing it, and I wouldn't consider them root vegetable anyways.

Bump.

I *still* think we need a root vegetables forum.

Hey there,

I am interested in getting some of the colored one's and different varieties. Are

regular seed catalog's the best source?

Thanks,

Jewellspace

I just ordered from http://www.ronnigers.com/ They came in looking good but of course too soon to tell how they will grow.

I grow leeks, shallots and garlic... more candidates for a root vegetable forum.

Actually the Vegetables forum is not all that busy. I also disagree that the culture of root vegetables is all that different from other types of vegetables. There is also very little input from growers of root vegetables in the Plantfiles. Now if you folks would start posting in the vegetable forums and load up the Plantfiles with photos and comments, I would support you. Examples; Irish potatoes 823 cultivars listed in Plantfiles only 78 have pictures and less have actual grower comments. Sweet potato 81 cultivars, 24 with photos and 11 of those are ornamentals. Carrot, 325 cultivars- 30 with photos and grower comment. Turnip - 73 cultivars, 7 photos and comments and on it goes.