2018 AAS Winners

[Daryl]

Originally Posted by Black Krim

THank you. Late blight is a growing problem here. Otherwise disease resistant varieties are easier to manage. And I look for the AAS as a variety of vegie to try.

Try Rosella Purple if late blight is a problem. I had one of them that was in a container overhung by two plants dying of late blight and not only did it survive, it thrived. I thought it was tough since earlier in the season, another couple of them that were close to a blighted tomato that I removed and they didn't get it either. I thought then that it was dumb luck that I had removed the diseased tomato quickly enough to avoid it, but the Rosella Purple were apparently nearly immune to the strain of Late Blight that we have here. Rosella Purple is one of the varieties from the Dwarf Tomato Project.

There is a searchable list of AAS winners here:
https://all-americaselections.org/winners/
Some have multiple disease resistance, some do not.

Good luck with the late blight. It used to not be a problem here, but has increasingly become so. Sometime when you have an hour, I'll tell you about my first experience of it when I was working for Extension. It starts with an elderly gentleman who was known to tipple a little. He called one morning saying his whole tomato field had turned black and it looked like somebody had sprayed used motor oil on it but smelled like hell. ;-)

[Black Krim]

THanks Daryl. Will put Rosella Purple on my list for sure. I like the idea of the dwarf indeterminates. Trying a couple this year.

I do plant a few hybrids as back ups. Selecting those with disease resistance. Still learning diseases and the ones most likely to be a problem in my garden.

Yeah, a few years ago the commercial farms in the northeast got hit hard with late blight.