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Re: [GWL]: Is It Really "Best"?

Ok, Jeff, which pepper is it? We in the seed industry want to know.
Rose Marie

> From: Jeff Ball <jeffball@starband.net>
> Reply-To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:25:54 -0800
> To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
> Subject: [GWL]: Is It Really "Best"?
> 
> Nan, you've hit one of my real hot buttons.  As a vegetable gardener, I have
> learned through trial and error which variety of each vegetable is "best"
> for my garden, measured by me in terms of taste, size, toughness of the
> plant, etc.  The dilemma is that the seed industry with its national testing
> program doesn't care what is "best" for my garden in Michigan. They need to
> find vegetable varieties that are "all right" for most of the country.  Thus
> they breed for average rather than "best".  The reason is simple, up to now
> at least.  Seed companies can't make money selling seed that only is "best"
> in one region of the country.  The California Wonder sweet pepper is "best"
> only in Southern California and the Gulf states, but it is "okay" throughout
> the rest of the country.  Now with the Internet, that all may change.  A
> company can market regional preferences with little overhead costs.  So the
> sweet pepper that does fantastic only in Michigan and Wisconsin can be sold
> in those areas via the Internet.
> I suspect the whole green industry is set up the same way; e.g. trees,
> shrubs, perennials, etc.  What is "best" on the Horticulture magazine list
> will be "just okay" in the whole country and "best" in only a limited region
> of the country.  My goal in five years is to have a list of all the truly
> "best" plants for each of the regions of the country.  I feel that the data
> is available, but will be very time consuming and expensive to collect and
> organize; so when I win the lottery.......
> 
> Jeff
> 
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