Tater-Mater

2011-10-17T22:48:00.000-07:00

This is a snapshot of my HOWIE MANDEL potato variety. It is a cross between Mandel and John Tom Kaighin, both of which have great flavor and the hybrid is no exception either.I sent true potato seed ...TPS ....out to a number of locations around the world and I am gearing up to list it with my online website for selling seed...newworldcrops.comSince I have an idea from customers what appears

2011-10-17T20:46:00.000-07:00

This is a new variety from my breeding work. I am calling it Blue Green.It ripens up with a green flesh with the blue mediated anthocyanin colors that are only skin deep.Hope to have enough seed of it to introduce this coming catalog season.

2011-10-17T19:57:00.000-07:00

This is but one of my many blue tomato creations. These are fully ripe Zebra type tomatoes that also have the blue pigments showing up in the areas hit by light and the stripes are picking up the pigment anthocyanin.This and many other tomato varieties will be posted on the website newworldcrops.com for sales.

2010-09-23T13:08:00.000-07:00

The Austrian Seed Savers...Arche Noah sent me this picture of some of the pretty tomatoes out of the seed I dropped off to them this Spring. Each of the tomatoes are sibs of each other. These are the selected ones out of 180 plants that were in their demonstration garden. It was called..SEARCHING FOR THE BLUE ZEBRA....and though they did not find the candidate sought..nothing is wrong with

2010-09-09T20:13:00.000-07:00

2010-08-10T22:16:00.001-07:00

Green Zebra Hybrid Question: Are there any F-1 Green Zebra Hybrid tomatoes?Answer: YesQuestion: Are they available to the average gardener?Answer: No. Should they be?Question: How many seeds do you have of a hybrid Green Zebra?Answer: About 50 seed. But I could make more if the market wanted them.Question: Would you sell any of those seeds?Answer

2010-06-04T13:08:00.000-07:00

To show you how busy I have been or otherwise, I still have stacks of potato berries from last yearwaiting to be processed for seed.Notice how some berries are purple? This is kindalike my purple/blue tomato breeding work.

2010-06-03T14:17:00.000-07:00

New updates are forthcoming soon.

2010-01-23T21:17:00.000-08:00

This winter and until about April I am offering my Potato Sampler again. It is an 8 lb. box sent postpaid and delivered in two days or so. I usually put about 5 to 20 varieties together. The varieties could be little known varieties from around the world or exclusive varieties out of my potato breeding program. I ask $40 to cover shipping costs and the rest to support my research.I usually

2009-09-24T16:37:00.000-07:00

2009-09-03T11:10:00.000-07:00

2009-08-29T04:48:00.000-07:00

I know, it is in French, but then many of the attendees will be French speaking.Programme 2009 des conférences et des séminaires de Tom WagnerTom Wagner et son traducteur Québécois Michel Lachaume seront accompagnés par Alan Bishop , le fondateur du réseau Homegrown Goodness, en Amérique du Nord. - Le 12 septembre, à midi, Tom Wagner animera une conférence au Château de Labourdaisière, à

2009-08-18T15:55:00.000-07:00

I have found this a hard subject to make simple. But here goes...Tomato late blight resistance genes are non-allelicQuote:Non-allelic genes are genes located at different loci on the samechromosome or on different chromosomes altogether.The gene, Ph-3, Chromosome 9Ph-1 (chromosome 7Ph-2 (chromosome 10).Reports are thatQuote:WV106carried a single dominant allele conditioning a high levelof

2009-08-17T09:27:00.000-07:00

As a plant breeder, I live in a microcosm of the greater macrocosm of the world of seed savers. My insular habits are largely self-imposed as a plant breeder; thereby I rarely look up to see the larger picture. What I see, ever so vaguely, is that my tiny private world has impacted folks who

2008-02-01T08:44:00.000-08:00

If you have not gone to the blurb at Local Harvest, check it out at:http://www.localharvest.org/member/M12486 Explore a new potato variety adventure in one package! The TaterMater Potato Sampler is destined to be my most popular item. Here you'll discover six distinctive and delicious potato varieties with each order Review different colors, tastes, and textures, all postage-free. Displayed in

2008-01-31T01:03:00.000-08:00

People ask me all the time, "Where can I find your tomato creations?" I talked with Ken Ettlinger of the Long Island Seed Project (LISP) the other day and he reminded me that he obtained seed from me years ago from my Tater-Mater Seed catalog and that was from the days of 1983 to 1986. I forget who got seed from me in those days and I have so many varieties floating around in the seed industry

2008-01-27T22:31:00.000-08:00

During my invited visit to Decorah, Iowa it was my great pleasure to meet up with old acquaintances and to make new friends. I was one of the guest speakers introduced by Kent Whealy.My talk was entitled, The History, Present Activities and Future Plans of an Heirloom Plant Breeder.I have a copy of the SSE 2007 Harvest Edition. I am including my remarks here. Introduction by Kent Whealy --

2008-01-26T13:40:00.000-08:00

This Tater-Mater blog is very much a diary of sorts, and I can control what goes into its content. If you are a first time reader or an old friend, you may want to leave some comments on my Tater Mater forum. The link is belowhttp://tatermater.proboards107.comEverything is happening so fast with the new forum and this blog. I will entertain many ideas what to place into my blog from emails and

2008-01-25T23:39:00.000-08:00

It has been over 4 years since I have read my own blog. I will begin making a numbers of posts to go along with my forum at http://tatermater.proboards107.comMy website will hopefully be up soon at TaterMaterSeeds.comTom Wagneremail thoswagner@yahoo.comcell phone 425 894-1123

2008-01-25T20:26:00.000-08:00

Wow, it has been over 4 years since I have gone onto the blog!!Since I am trying to make my web site TaterMaterSeeds.com available, I should post here more often.Tom WagnerEverett, WA.

2003-11-27T02:21:00.000-08:00

Hello Fellow Bloggers and Blog Readers, Introducing myself seems to be the first thing I should do for this first time blog. My name is Tom Wagner and I have been breeding potatoes and tomatoes for 50 years. My tomatoes are known in the heirloom tomato circles and these include GREEN ZEBRA, GREEN GRAPE, and ELBERTA GIRL. My potatoes are not well known yet...but in certification are Kern