Endurance Outdoor Tomato (vine, salad)

£3.00

15 in stock

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We’re very excited to be able to add Endurance to our catalogue. It is a brand new open-pollinated, blight-resistant tomato variety bred by Simon Crawford for outdoor cultivation. This is its first release in 2025 after several years of trials and bulking up by The Gaia Foundation’s Seed Sovereignty Programme (https://www.seedsovereignty.info/) throughout the UK and Ireland. This semi-determinate tomato provides a viable option for outdoor tomato growing, particularly in challenging climates, with a focus on disease resistance and earliness.

One of our growers, Chris Vernon, participated in the Gaia Foundation’s trial last year and this line was chosen to bring to market. It grew wonderfully on Chris’ west Wales site, blight free, harvesting salad sized fruits well into a damp autumn.

Strengths:
– Good blight resistance, allowing outdoor growing of tomatoes even in challenging climates.
– High vigour, earliness, high yield, good disease resistance, and decent flavour reported by some users.
– Plants exhibit strong and vigorous growth once established.
– No cracking was observed during regular rain & soil moisture, suggesting good cracking resistance.
– Resistance to Blossom End Rot.

Approx. 18 seeds per packet.

Botanical name: Solanum lycopersicum

5% of the sale price from this tomato will be donated to The Seed Sovereignty Programme to continue their important work.

Grown by: Chris Vernon

These are a semi-indeterminate, blight-resistant tomato for outdoor growing. Sow them in modules or a seed tray with some seed compost in March or early April. Once germinated move them somewhere nice and light to stop them getting thin and leggy, but still indoors where it’s warm. Pot them on when they get a bit bigger before transplanting outside to a sunny spot in May or early June, spaced 2 ft apart, adding lots of organic material. They will need some support, cane or ideally a cage.