I have grown a number of Burpee's blight resistant tomatoes - I've found them robust and resilient. Blight resistance can vary from one variety to another some years are worse for Late Blight than others. "Burpee has invested a huge amount of their time and expertise in breeding blight-resistant tomatoes to help gardeners be more likely to enjoy successful tomato harvests in their gardens. I found the early varieties like Ferline lacked flavour, but the latest ones like the ones I've mentioned are delicious." I almost gave up growing tomatoes but blight-resistant ones like Crimson Crush and Cocktail Crush mean we can enjoy fresh tomatoes for months.
Growing other varieties can be a waste of time as some years blight gets them before they crop, or it's an extremely short season. "Growing blight resistant tomatoes is a game-changer for me because I don't have a greenhouse, so I can only grow them outdoors. Steve Ott, Editor of Kitchen Garden Magazine My personal favourites for flavour are 'Consuelo' and for the patio 'Veranda Red'.” Although not immune, their great resistance to the disease ensures that I should get a good crop of tasty toms when other varieties have long since succumbed. “I always add some blight resistant varieties to the mix for growing each year. Regarding taste, one of the seed companies who sell Crimson Crush, actually chose it initially from a blind taste test, and later when it came out top, realised it was blight resistant. And that trials are always done on a market garden just like a large veg garden.
Senior Research Fellow, Bangor University, who specialises in Genetics and Plant Pathology states that he has not heard of any part of the country where Crimson Crush etc do not tolerate blight. Our British bred varieties are grown and respected across Europe.ĭr David Shaw Hon. We also won the Siemens Innovation Award at Bangor for the programme. The general response we have had to our varieties has been very positive and our PhD studentship in Bangor provided independent scientifically validated results to support our claims. The Burpee programme has been in development for over 14 years and Simon Crawford, the head breeder, has been involved in breeding tomatoes since 1978 with Red Alert being his first introduction. They have an excellent flavour and should be sown 6-8 weeks before expected lasts frosts - in the United Kingdom this will be anytime from March onwards.After a discussion on Gardeners Question Time recently where it was claimed that blight-resistant tomatoes are 'a marketing tag', the Burpee Europe team wanted to share their side of the blight-resistant breeding story. The fruit have a slightly flatter shape compared to the norm and come almost completely seedless.įortunately for most gardeners, best results are produced when the plants were grown outdoors but they are also perfectly fine for growing under glass. It produces large, glossy red fruits with an expected crop of up to 6 lbs per plant. In recent tests ‘Legend’ had shown impressive blight tolerance, and in particular during trials in a ‘garden’ situation.
This particular variety was bred in the USA by Dr. Although it does well sown outdoors ‘Ferline’ is also suitable for growing under glass. It produces heavy crops – up to 5 lbs per plant – of flavoursome, deep red fruits. As with the new ‘Legend’ cultivar, ‘Ferline’ has also tested extremely well in garden trials. Not only has this new variety shown excellent tolerance to ‘Late Blight’, it has also proven itself to be highly resistant against both fusarium wilt and verticillium wilt.
0 kommentar(er)
