Salt I talked to a friend of mine who is familiar with some of the local commercial growers and he said that the one that did the best this past season was called Red Bounty. He said it produced larger fruit, redder fruit and that it tasted better than most of the other super hybrids. It is supposed to be very resistant to Fusarium 1 & 2. Nematodes and best of all it is resistant to Spotted Wilt virus. Even though it is not listed as resistant to all 3 races of fusarium it did well around here for a couple of growers. Maybe it has enough resistance to the third race to get by or the fields it was in didn't have it. He said one of the guys planted half Amelia and half Red Bounty and did far better with the Red Bounty. You might want to give it a try just to see if it will work in your garden along with some of the others you might want to try. I did recall the one that did fairly good for me and it was called Red Mountain.
Bill
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