Vegetable Variety Showcase 2013: Crookham Co.

Posted by Lauren María Alexander|November 15, 2013

Avalon

Avalon is a very sturdy, yet flexible, late intermediate Spanish onion. It allows a smooth transition from intermediate to long-day varieties with the option of mechanical harvesting. Growers enjoy its size potential, single centers, and its nice firm bulb. It shows good tolerance to pink root and Fusarium and high tolerance to bolting.

Journey

Journey has excellent contrast between its yellow and white kernels and features a dark, protective husk. The taste and bite of these kernels is exceptional. The plant is upright and healthy and is noted for its dark-green color. It features intermediate/moderate resistance to common rust (RP1-D), Stewart’s wilt, maize dwarf mosaic, and northern corn leaf blight.

Ka-Ching

Ka-Ching has great health and architecture with high yield potential. It's rugged and adaptable with a large ear. The uniformity of the ears in size, placement, and maturity lends itself to machine harvesting. It has a nice package, good tip fill, husk protection, and eating quality. It also has intermediate resistance to common rust, Stewart’s wilt, and northern corn leaf blight.

Pay Dirt

Pay Dirt now features increased vigor and emergence, better seed quality, a better disease package with the added protection from the new rust strain, improved ear placement and husk protection, and is one of the best eating synergistics on the market. It features high/standard resistance to common rust, and intermediate resistance to Stewart’s wilt.

Profit

Profit is a grower-friendly variety with its seed quality and yield. It presents itself very well for the consumer with large ears for the season, with nice flags and good husk protection and tip fill. It brings a better eating quality to the table for the synergistic series. It features intermediate resistance to common rust, Stewart’s wilt, and northern corn leaf blight.

Salute

Salute is a great early to main season intermediate variety that displays a nice golden-brown scale and cuts a high percentage of single centers. This Spanish onion is a consistent yielder and a uniform producer of jumbo and colossal bulbs. It has shown strong tolerance to pink root, Fusarium, and bolting.

Scorpion

Scorpion produces a nice medium-sized bulb that has long-term storage potential, and has a rich copper brown color. Scorpion features good tolerance to pink root, Fusarium, and tolerance to bolting.

Scout

Scout is a great transition variety as you go from intermediate to long days. It has a nice copper brown scale and holds up well to mechanical harvest. Scout shows a good tolerance to pink root and Fusarium, and a good tolerance to bolting.

Silver Duchess

Silver Duchess is a consistent producer. This large, bright-white ear comes from a rugged plant with great adaptability. This high-yielding, grower-friendly variety features good tip fill, a nice husk package, and good eating quality. It features intermediate resistance to common rust, Stewart’s wilt, and northern corn leaf blight.

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