Potatoes
Sugaroots® – Sweet Potato Young Plants for Central Europe
Hardly any vegetable is currently as trendy as the sweet potato. With an annual per capita consumption of around half a kilo, the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is far from dominating the conventional potato (Solanum tuberosum), but the potential is there. In order to utilise this potential, at least in home gardens, we are launching the Sugaroots® sweet potato series for the 2022 spring season. These varieties were bred and selected by our partner company Lubera® in Switzerland.
Read moreLubera breeds potatoes – the most important questions and answers
With the expansion of the range of young plants from Lubera Edibles to include vegetables, Lubera also started breeding potatoes a few years ago. How does a simple tree nursery now come up with the idea of breeding potatoes? You are right to ask this question and we will answer the most important questions about our potato breeding project in the following FAQ.
Read moreTomato and aubergine breeding at Lubera Edibles
Tomatoes and aubergine young plants from Lubera Edibles®. We can already see the incredulous amazement in the eyes of many of our customers. And that's why we start early enough to explain what we do at Lubera Edibles vegetable-wise. Because one thing is certain: plant producers as well as young plant producers will have to position themselves more broadly and pragmatically in the future in order to resist the distortions of the market.
Read moreOur assortment of 'edible' young plants
As the new company name, Lubera Edibles®, already suggests, we are expanding our range of young plants from classic soft fruits, such as raspberries, blackberries or blueberries, to anything that can be consumed in any way. This includes edible fruits like kiwis, apples and pears. Or edible roots such as horseradish, Jerusalem artichoke or potato. But also edible leaves, petioles, flowers such as sea kale, tea or rhubarb. We would like to introduce our most important groups of crops in the...
Read moreBreeding and selection of vegetables
In this video Markus Kobelt MD of 'Lubera' who together with Rupert Mayer MD of 'Mayer', is the founder of the young plant producers of the brand new 'Lubera Edibles', explains all about vegetable breeding, using potatoes as an example.
'Lubera Edibles' is the young plant division of Lubera, it provides a large selection of delicious fruit varieties to growers. The companies of Robert Mayer and Lubera have joined forces to produce these young plants through the breeding of new edible varieties at...
Read moreVegetable Novelties 2019
As the new name 'Lubera Edibles' already suggests, we look beyond the borders of fruit and berry plants and also aim at other innovative ranges in the field of edible plants. The focus is on vegetable young plants in particular. With the vegetable young plants, we started by propagating rhubarb, so it is not surprising that our range is the broadest in this category. But it should not stay that way. In this article I report about the current assortment and give hints where Lubera Edibles is...
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