Heirloom tomatoes?
February 12, 2007 – 12:35 pmNorway has agreed to foot the bill for a “doomsday” vault to house seed specimens of food-producing crops. This is good to know. In the event of a cataclysm or major F-up that’d prevent the normal cultivation of food crops for a while, we’d be in trouble without a back-up. It’s guaranteed that the need for seed would indeed be speedily decreed once the soil would again be deemed kosher for planting.
An Irishman wonders: What about potatoes? They do not, as you probably know, produce seeds. Can deep-frozen seed potatoes be brought to fruit? Does anyone know? I’d hate to think that our lizard-skinned, post-apocalyptic descendants would never know the joy of Kale ‘n Spuds with Cheddar.
