Heidi*, the new girl in town

Apr 21, 2016 | General

Heidi* is an exciting new indeterminate salad tomato from Sakata and is characterized by good fruit quality, uniform size and a good disease package.  Heidi* can be grown under protection or in the open field due to its good fruit set and size giving high pack out percentages. Cornel van Rensburg, Sakata representative are inspecting the very vigorous Heidi* plants, at Modelpak in the Brits area.  (*Experimental: This variety does not appear on the current South African Variety list, but has been submitter for registration).

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