"US: "All-America Selection trials are a useful tool"
AAS has been conducting trials around the country for 82 years. We have one of the only trial sites in Ohio located at our gardens. The trials are planted and maintained by Ohio State University Extension Master Gardeners of Clark County.
Before a trial site is selected, the committee determines if the site as well as the judge meets the criteria. We became a trial site three years ago.
AAS is the oldest independent organization trialing and testing vegetables as well as annual flowers. In 2016 they will begin trialing perennial plants.
Breeders who are working on new varieties enter their plants in the trial. These plants are then compared side by side with similar varieties that are tried and true. They are evaluated to see how they stand up to the comparisons.
The evaluations take place at more than 80 trial sites around North America.
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