2024
I grew a carrot grex from @Logan together with various named varieties again. My seed from the carrot in 2023 also came to seed. That grex I mixed with Vivi’s grex as well as another colleague’s own grex, all of them about 7 different varieties each crossed, into a supergrex which we distributed at Future Heirloom.
I am now distributing this grex within the Danish seed saver association, which is otherwise mostly focused on inbred heirlooms. I picked a name for the grex, because names are an important boundary in those communities. The association has a few members that have grown more diverse varieties through the years, among them some of Joseph’s landraces, and I think of these members as crucial bridges.You can read about the supergrex here in the database of the association (in Danish).
At that event we also did a carrot tasting with those carrot grexes as well as some carrots from various participants (people were invited to bring with them good carrots). I saved the best scoring roots to grow to seed.
Here are some images from the pumpkin tasting that same day:
