Costello not over eager early on but seemed to cope well with extremes of wet and drought through the season. Can we have early vigour scores
@CORK ?
I don't have vigour scores as such, I do remember
@Bog Man mentioning that he thought some of the older varieties were more vigorous than what we have nowadays.
Varieties do differ a bit in terms of vigour but there is little difference between most of them.
I would always consider Costello to be very tame in terms of its growth until about early April - it stays quite prostrate and tillers well. This is usually something I like to see, especially in my mild part of the world.
Costello usually looks its best just as it ripens.
In terms of vigour, I would consider Cellule to be the most vigorous. It tillers well and seems to put up with waterlogging quite well.
After that, I wouldn't see many differences between the varieties that are out there.
I intend to go with mostly Cellule again I think. It appears to prefer to be a first wheat from what I have seen in this years trials. That said, this year was so weird that we should probably be careful drawing any conclusions from trials. Most of ours will be second crop....(its earliness should allow us to get WOSR in next autumn after it).
Cellule served us very well on our home farm this year. If we get a wet May next year and I am dealing with lots of Septoria pressure then it would be the one to have.