Darselect - Early Season
- The fruit has a very good, sweet taste with a strong, traditional, aromatic fragrance
- Darselect is a vigorous, well balanced strawberry variety with an erect habit and dark green foliage
- Fruits are large with good shape giving a high percentage of Class 1 fruit
- The stalk is easily broken, which helps for quick picking thus reducing harvesting costs
- Darselect flesh is light red and firm, with a strong brick red skin
- The strawberries store well if required and do not darken in store
- Moderately tolerant to Crown Rot and Verticillium Wilt
Use and Growing Advice
Darselect can be grown in the open field in a Pick Your Own situation, under plastic tunnels for supermarkets or planted in substrate in a greenhouse environment.
- Darselect can be planted either as fresh plant during autumn or as a cold store plant during May/June
- Avoid large quantities of nitrate fertilisers as this can make the plant very vegetative
- Treat early in the season against mildew on foliage. Similar susceptibility to Mildew as Elsanta
- While the fruit is growing, the addition of magnesium oxide will help improve the glossiness of fruit
- Harvest when the fruit is ripe, that is when the skin is brick red. Harvest staggered every 4-5 days on average