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

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

Here is a link that might be useful: Under G for

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