Here's what we have planted:

August, 2008

• An especially cold-hardy and short variety of winter wheat called CDC Falcon,
• Two high Andes wild potato relative species: Solanum acaule and Solanum commersonii,
• One primitive hybrid cultivated potato: Solanum juzepsukii,
• An artificial fusion hybrid potato between US cultivar Superior and S. commersonii, developed by John Bamberg,
• Quinoa, Colorado 407D variety,
• A wild relative of quinoa from Peru called Chenopodium pallidicaule,
• Camelina, an oilseed.

(Only some winter wheat was still alive in the spring, and that just barely. We believe that excessive heat and dryness is what nearly killed it, not cold! See our journal from the June 2009 expedition.)

June, 2009

• Ordinary garden-variety radishes, mixed salad greens and marigolds from seed,
• A variety of domestic potato called "Alaska Frostless."

(In September we had a good harvest of the radishes, salad greens and potatoes! Plus, the staff at the Barcroft Station had already harvested several salads worth of radishes and greens. The marigolds never flowered.)

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