Grafted vegetable pack
by Sarah - March 1st, 2012.Filed under: allotment, Suttons Seeds.
I was first told about tomato grafting by the oldest allotmenter on my old allotment site. Norman told me he’d been grafting tomatoes for years after a friend showed him how. His friend worked at a commercial tomato growing site where it’s done to increase yield!
It’s not just tomatoes that can be grafted – they’ve been doing it for years with fruit trees too but also now you can buy these grafted veg plants:
Suttons Seeds have:
Vegetable Grafted Plant Taster Pack £9.95
Pack contains 3 grafted pot ready plants (1 of each variety):Sweet Pepper F1 Magno – A first-rate, strong-growing variety that ripens from green to orange, shows good resistance to cracking and skin blemishes, and tastes superb! Cucumber Quatro – A first-class cucumber producing crisp,tasty fruits of 9-11cm in length. Plants are vigorous, and ideal for growing under glass or outdoors, in soil or containers.Tomato Conchita – A superb large cherry tomato with fine flavour. Gives huge crops on trusses bearing as many as 20 fruits.Grafted ‘Turbo’ vegetable plants! For your best ever crops! We’ve taken the best varieties available and grafted them onto an extremely vigorous-growing root stocks. Commerical crops have been grown in this way for a while and have been shown to:Be more vigorous, producing larger plants. Have greater resistance to pests and diseases. Have less susceptibility to nutritional disorders. Perform well with less heat in your greenhouse. Yield top quality fruit earlier and over a longer period compared to normal plants.Our trials have shown that grafted plants are incredibly healthy and give rise to larger, strong-growing plants giving earlier, heavier crops. They’ll perform well outside but are particularly recommended for greenhouse growing, where they will fulfill their full potential and allow you to get plants off to an early start in spring without paying a fortune on heating your greenhouse.Kitchen Garden Magazine have recommended our grafted veg plant to their readers!. Pack of 3 Grafted Pot Ready Plants (1 of each variety). Full growing instructions included.. . . .