Growing guides, variety notes and what is moving in the vegetable seed trade.
Plant habit, maturity class and the resistance package decide more than yield figures ever will. A short guide to the fields that matter.
The single decision that shapes labour, trellising and harvest window on a tomato crop.
Fruit set without pollination sounds like a technicality. In a greenhouse it changes the whole management plan.
Fom 0,1,2 is not a version number. It lists the races the variety stands up to.
Packhouses pay for consistency. A field of impressive but variable roots grades badly.
Heat affects fruit set before it affects the plant. Variety choice can absorb some of that.
Tomato brown rugose fruit virus reshaped variety selection across the region. Here is what it means on a datasheet.
Growing system narrows a catalogue faster than any other filter. It should be settled before the conversation starts.
