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| This year I bought a Ginger's Golden Delicious plant, billed at the nursery to be a "local favorite".
So far it is a monster plant, stuffed into its five foot tall cage and overflowing out the top, with oodles of fruit, and the first almost ripe tomato I have fills two hands. Has anyone else grown it? I sure hope it tastes yummy, because I think I want to save seed! Carla in Sac |
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- Posted by carolyn137 z4/5 NY (My Page) on Sun, Jul 19, 09 at 9:06
| Carla, I know of the variety Golden Delicious, but not Ginger's Golden Delicious. Perhaps they tacked on the Ginger part for some reason ala a local person since you said it was a local favorite, but Golden Delicious itself has been known for quite a long time. I haven't grown it but can tell you what those who list it in the SSE Yearbook have to say about it if no one else here has grown it. Carolyn |
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| Carolyn: When I googled it, I only found one website, which I think is the farm that grew my start. It's got a photo--maybe you can look at it to see if it's the same as the one you know? Thanks so much, Carla in Sac |
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- Posted by carolyn137 z4/5 NY (My Page) on Sun, Jul 19, 09 at 22:00
| From the SSE descriptions it does sound like Golden Delicious, called Big Golden Delicious by some, and I can't tell from the picture at that link but it's supposed to be beefstak shaped. Very few folks have listed it over the years and the SSE accession # for it indicates that it's been around probably since the early to mid 1980's. Carla, seldom have I seen so much really wrong information about varieties as I did at that site. many are said to be heirlooms when they aren't, and Oregon Spring was described as a Russian tomato, blah, blah, when it was bred by Dr. J Baggett at Oregon State Univeristy. And there's a whole lot more errors. Unfortunately I think they just added the name Ginger to the proper name for the variety which is Golden Delicious to indicate a local association. And I'm sure you know how I feel about that. ( smile) Carolyn |
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