Many gardeners have at some point suffered the disappointment of their entire season’s tomato crop being devastated by blight.  With spores being carried on the wind tomato blight can spread for many miles and although some blight resistant tomatoes are already available none have been able to fight off all strains of the disease. Until now.

Simon Crawford, leading plant breeder, and James Stroud, PhD scientist at Bangor University, have been working since 2006 to create a blight immune variety of tomato. Simon first found blight resistant genes in a tomato plant when carrying out trials at his farm in Yorkshire. Working together Simon and James then combined blight resistant genes Ph2 and Ph3 into just one plant, thus creating the first truly immune variety, Crimson Crush.

As well as being able to shrug off even the worst attack of blight, Crimson Crush produces exceptionally fine tasting, large round tomatoes. Each weighing up to 200g.

Brand new and exclusive, Crimson Crush is available as super plug plants with 3 plants costing £7.99. Ready for despatch in April 2015 these young plants will need growing on for a while but will then be perfectly suitable for outdoor growing.
Crimson Crush seed will be available for the 2016 growing season and will feature in the Dobies of Devon Seed catalogue due out in September 2015.

Dobie’s Vegetable Product Manager, Alfie Jackson, said, “Put simply, Crimson Crush is the world’s first commercially available blight-resistant tomato. The significance is huge – it means for the first time ever amateur growers don’t have to worry about their tomato crops being wiped out by blight.”

Crimson Crush Tomato

Simon Crawford added, “We think this tomato will change the face of home gardening. Blight is the biggest problem facing the home gardener and we’re confident our tomato will hold up to it. I’m most pleased that we have managed to create a blight resistant tomato that has great taste too.”

So if you wish to avoid tomato blight this year then Crimson Crush is the tomato for you.

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  1. I was given two crimson crush plants from Dobies, they are planted on my allotment plot which gets blight most years. this year no blight yet I grew the plants as bushes, they have both grown well and have large tomatoes which I started picking 10 days ago. I will be trying them again next year.

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