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News from Lubera® breeding - passion flowers, fire beans and co.
Summer is the time to take a well-deserved rest and enjoy your garden. Unfortunately, this is only partly the case for Lubera®. Although we are incredibly happy about everything that grows and thrives, there is a lot of work to do right now. But in the process we have discovered many exciting new things. So come along and catch a glimpse of the exciting breeding news and what you might be lucky enough to grow in your own garden in the next few years.
Passion flowers and passion fruit
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Read moreBreeding of field-grown melons
An outdoor melon? Another new breeding programme? Yes, this year Lubera has started breeding melons, more precisely honeydew outdoor melons for Central Europe. Lubera has already bred some exotic crops: you can already order peanuts, sweet potatoes or passion fruit in the Lubera Garden Shop, but now outdoor melons? Do they even grow here?
It's not that far-fetched to grow outdoor melons in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. If you look in old variety catalogues, you will be surprised to...
Read moreThe standard berry and its alternatives
The 2 to 3 litre pot, tall and usually square, has become the standard in berry plant production. If you wander through the garden centres in the spring and analyse the offers with a gardener's eye, all you see is always the same: almost the same pot, with a slightly different but always large label, nota bene with as little information as possible. It is a well-known fact that customers cannot read. At least that's what our advertising consultants seem to think. Garden centres are no...
Read moreBreeding hardy passion fruit
Have you ever heard of hardy passion fruit? Probably not. When you think of passion fruit, you tend to think of truly tropical fruits from South America. And that is true. The passion fruits of the species Passiflora edulis available in supermarkets are tropical plants, just like the majority of the more than 600 species of the genus Passiflora.
The plants of the genus Passiflora are also called passion flowers and over 100 species of them produce edible fruits. These fruits are very different...
Read moreHow successful are outdoor tomatoes on the market? – Sales test 2022
For some years now, when breeding new tomato varieties, we have concentrated on outdoor tomatoes that are largely resistant to blight and Alternaria. In discussions, we have heard time and again that the resistance argument is not important regarding tomatoes, that customers would focus on taste, on compact growth types or on diversity (colours, shapes, stripes). Sometimes even the suspicion was expressed that the building of tomato roofs, tomato houses and the like was just part of growing...
Read moreReal-time plant breeding – a breeding tour in April
Plant breeding in April 2022: at Lubera’s field for plant breeding trials in Buchs, Switzerland in early April. You will look in vain for laboratories and white coats. Practical plant breeding takes place first of all in the field, then in the greenhouse; thirdly via researching and evaluating on the computer and only then perhaps in the laboratory. On a Sunday afternoon (when else?), I set off on a tour of our Lubera breeding field in Buchs. What do I notice? What is the latest news? What...
Read moreStrawberry young plants in many extraordinary varieties - exclusively at Lubera Edibles®
Strawberry young plants - this WAS a gaping hole in our berry young plant range. Historically, strawberry plants have mostly been produced by specialist growers (usually from commercial farming). But our aim is to enable many more growers to produce their own strawberry plants to complement their edibles (vegetables, fruit, other berries) by providing the right quality of young plants. And at the same time, of course, we would like to offer varieties that meet the special needs of home garden...
Read moreLubera Edibles and Lubera support Ukraine Aid!
All of us, you and us, grow, propagate, produce plants that bring forth fruit. We are rightly proud of this. But when we watch the news in between these days, it all suddenly seems meaningless. Yes, we propagate, care for and supply our Lubera Edilbes young plants. In Ukraine, Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. They are fighting for their freedom, which is also ours. With their heroic efforts and their willingness to make sacrifices, they are also protecting our freedom.
For those of us...
Read moreWild fruit breeding at Lubera®
Unknown or little-known, hardly noticed fruit species are also worked on in the Lubera breeding programme. But why do we care about the obscure, little demanded, often not directly edible berry and fruit species, when we could possibly invest more in raspberry breeding? In this article, Markus Kobelt shows the importance of wild fruit species in the Lubera breeding programme and also describes in concrete terms the objectives for which research is carried out on the various wild fruit species.
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Read moreLubera Edibles Podcast #21: Gardener's talk: How do I produce strawberries in pots?
The strawberry is one of the most popular berry fruits in Germany. This and the fact that strawberries develop quite quickly in pots, as well as the fact that strawberries are a plant that is usually planted as a row crop, make them interesting for horticultural production. Strawberry plants are produced and sold in a wide range of sizes. Let this podcast inspire you how quickly and easily strawberry plants can be produced with the Lubera Edibles young plants.
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