Historical background information for varieties handed down from bygone days.
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Tomatovillian™
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I'm not certain if this should go here, but I couldn't think of a better spot.
I am putting together a list of varieties that originated in Virginia (not West Virginia) so that I know which to look out for. So far, the list is short and contains both old and modern varieties. Any additions or corrections would be greatly appreciated! Aunt Gertie's Gold Blosser Burracker's Favorite (?) Church German Gold German Johnson Grandma Josie KBX Lynnwood Mary Reynolds Old German Old Virginia Powers Heirloom Purple Price Roma, Virginia Select Rugby Orange Trees Bottom Yellow Vinson Watts Virginia Sweets (?) Wanda's Potato Top Wood's Famous Brimmer Yellow Oxheart Jeff |
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Tomatovillian™
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You can add Maiden's Gold. Its history goes back to Saltville, Va. in the 1950's.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Virginia
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striped german
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Tomatovillian™
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Thank you!
Here are a few that I can't decide on: Mary Robinson's German Bicolor Alston's Everlasting German Johnson Potato Leaf Wild Bill's Big Red Wild Bill's Old Timey |
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KBX did not originate in VA.It was Martha Hufford ( gardemamahere atTville) who does live in VA who found it, the PL version of Kellogg's Breafast,in a pack of commercial seeds she bought from at place in CA.
http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/KBX So you could say that KBX originated in CA, but was found by Martha in VA, but it didn't originate there. ![]() There are a few others I have questions about as having originated in VA but right now I just don't have the time to go searching. Carolyn
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Tomatovillian™
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Ah, I see. Thank you for clearing that up, Carolyn. I'm a bit skeptical about a few of the others, too, but I left them on the list 'just in case'. I'll keep digging.
Do you happen to know which of those are definitely from Virginia? |
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Being from Georgia, I appreciate why you want to exclude those renegade West Virginians from your list, but why specifically?
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Perhaps the reason is b'c there already is a list of West VA varieties, link above. ![]() Carolyn
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I'd like to collect and grow the Virginia varieties... for the sake of heritage, I guess. Trying to figure out which they are has been a challenge of its own, so preserving and spreading those varieties seems important to me.
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I'm in no hurry. It's becoming a little project of mine. The only hurdle so far, a significant one at that, is the lack of resources. I might end up joining the SSE after all for access to the yearbooks.
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I'm lucky to have all the Yearbooks going back to 1975 except for the 1982 one and there's a reason for that since I joined SSE only in1989. The SSE Yearbook for each year is now online, for members only and you can do a search for a speicifc variety which tells you who listed it and when, but as I recall, not the full blurb that was listed initially. I don't participate with the online. But these days ALL submissions by listed members are put on the online and then the paper Yearbook printed from that. I don't accept requests from the online, and say so, and since there's no way for folks to print the SSE 2013 Request form from the online right now and it goes up at least a month or so, before the paper one is sent out, my listing anything with SSE is up in the air. Are you familiarwith Tania;s excellent website b/c she's copied off the histories for many many varieties? here's the link if you haven't done so: http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Main_Page At the top of that home page there's a link to short cuts and if you know the name of a variety I suggest you hit that link and search via the alphabetical method. Carolyn
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