Solist
Variety
Solist
Approved Data
created by Heike at 26.02.2021
Features
Color
Wurzel: gelb
Wurzelfleisch: gelb
Cultivation Break
4 Years
Season Overview
Propagating
Planting
Harvest
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Description
Yellow skin and flesh. Long oval shape. Very early ripening. Predominantly firm to hard boiling. Harvest from mid-June. High yield. Aromatic, spicy taste. Good for jacket, boiled and fried potatoes. Good resistance to scab, tuber rot and iron spot.
Non hybrid
Growing tips
Very long dormancy, so pre-germinate well. Prefers heavier soils with good water supply. Water well and early in dry conditions. Remove film or fleece for additional earliness in warm weather to avoid heat stress.
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Moist
Soil
Medium (loamy)
Nutrient requirement
High
Plant distance
32 cm
Row spacing
75 cm
Seeding depth
10 cm
Companion Plants
Bean (Broad bean / Faba bean / Field bean)
Bean (Dwarf bean)
Borage
Caraway / Meridian fennel / Persian cumin
Chamomile
Chives
Common marigold
Coneflower (Echinacea)
Corn / Maize
Currant
Dill
Forsythia
Garden cosmos / Mexican aster
Garlic
Garlic chives
Gooseberry
Grasses - Fescue
Grasses - Other
Grasses - Sedges
Kohlrabi / German turnip / Turnip cabbage
Larkspur
Lavender
Lupine / Bluebonnet
Mint
Nasturtium
Onion (Spring onion)
Oregano
Parsley
Phacelia / Scorpionweed / Heliotrope
Raspberry
Sage
Soybean
Spinach (Summer)
St. John's wort
Tagetes / Marigolds
Thyme
Weigela
Antagonistic Plants
Arctic Bramble, Mammure
Aster
Aubergine / Eggplant
Basil
Beetroot
Blackberry / Brambles
Blueberry
Broccoli raab / Stem cabbage / Cima di rapa
Brussels sprouts
Celery (Celeriac / Celery root)
Celery (Celery)
Celery (Leaf celery / Chinese celery)
Chard
Chili
Chinese kale - Kai-lan / Chinese broccoli
Comfrey
Courgette / Zucchini
Cucumber (African horned cucumber / Kiwano)
Cucumber (Caigua)
Cucumber (Melothria)
Cucumber / Gherkin
Dahlia
Elderberry
Florence fennel / Finocchio
Funk
Garden squash - Patisson / UFO squash
Hair cucumbers / snake gourds
heather family
Ivy
Jerusalem artichoke / Topinambur
Large cranberry / American cranberry
Lilac
Lingonberry / Partridgeberry / Mountain cranberry
Lovage
Make
Melon (Sugar melon)
Melon (Watermelon)
Mizuna / Japanese mustard greens
Napa cabbage / Chinese cabbage
Nightshades (Other)
Okra
Ornamental pumpkin
Pak Choi
Pepper / Paprika
Physalis
Pumpkin / Squash
Rapini / Broccoli rabe
Rosemary
Rutabaga / Swedish turnip
Sea coal
Sponge gourd / Egyptian cucumber / Vietnamese luffa
Sunflower
Tomato (Bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail Stake Tomato)
Tomato (Stake tomato)
Turnip
Turnip greens - Choy Sum / Chinese flowering cabbage
Turnip greens - Mizuna
Turnip greens - Tatsoi
Turnip-rooted chervil
Turnips - Oilseed turnips
Turnips - Wild turnips
Yalta tomatoes
Diseases
Fusarium
Powdery mildews
Early blight of potato
Black spot of roses
Soft rot
Brown rot
Pests
Root knot nematodes
Stem borers
Land snails
Cutworms
Larvae
Ten-lined potato beetle
Nematodes
Aphids
Wireworms
Voles
