Amish Gold Slicer

[coronabarb]

I was given a couple of plants of this variety and I'm not familiar with it. Not finding much in a search here and wondering if anyone has experience with it? Worth a spot in my garden? (I have a pretty big garden)

[rags57078]

I would plant them just to see how they was . Life is an adventure so go for it

[AlittleSalt]

We are growing one Amish Paste that we have found very interesting. I don't know if it is anything like Amish Gold Slicer though. If I removed the supports and let it sprawl, it would span at least 8 feet.

Here are two pictures that might spark some interest

[carolyn137]

Here you go Barb:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...+slicer+tomato

Carolyn, who has not grown it.

[coronabarb]

Thanks Carolyn. Reported to be a cross between Amish Paste and Sungold. Might be interesting. I'll see if I have the round variety or the oblong shape as both are in the reports. Came across this gal's blog and she decried people growing "Purple Cherokee", a commercial variety. She says people can do better by growing heirlooms. O.o

https://gardenofgoodandevil.wordpres...h-gold-tomato/

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by coronabarb

Thanks Carolyn. Reported to be a cross between Amish Paste and Sungold. Might be interesting. I'll see if I have the round variety or the oblong shape as both are in the reports. Came across this gal's blog and she decried people growing "Purple Cherokee", a commercial variety. She says people can do better by growing heirlooms. O.o

https://gardenofgoodandevil.wordpres...h-gold-tomato/

That's why I posted the pictures above. Amish Gold is supposed to be a cross of Amish Paste and Sungold too. I wonder if some of the tomatoes that came from the cross were round slicers and others are paste tomato shaped.

Now I wonder if they taste the same?

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by coronabarb

Thanks Carolyn. Reported to be a cross between Amish Paste and Sungold. Might be interesting. I'll see if I have the round variety or the oblong shape as both are in the reports. Came across this gal's blog and she decried people growing "Purple Cherokee", a commercial variety. She says people can do better by growing heirlooms. O.o

https://gardenofgoodandevil.wordpres...h-gold-tomato/

If she called it Purple Cherokee and not the correct reverse, I know who distributed the seeds with the reversed name and sent seeds of same to several seed vendors.

My my, what does she call an heirloom variety?

I quickly read the link and gave up, just too many varieties not spelled correctly and other misinformation as well.

Carolyn

[AlittleSalt]

coronabarb, We tasted the Amish Gold today. It has a good refreshing taste for us.

[coronabarb]

Wow, you are way ahead of us here in Oregon Hoping mine will be good too.

[Worth1]

How can you cross an open pollinated tomato and a Hybrid like sungold and expect to get stable seeds.

Worth

[Deborah]

Dumb Question Alert: Why are some tomatoes called Amish this or that? Because the Amish bred them or grew them for many years or both or what?

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Deborah

Dumb Question Alert: Why are some tomatoes called Amish this or that? Because the Amish bred them or grew them for many years or both or what?

No its not a dumb question.
In many cases it adds value to a product to get people to buy it.
Often times having nothing to do with the Amish at all but a cheap ripoff.
And in others it was actually grown by the Amish but not necessarily bred by them.

Worth

[coronabarb]

Worth,

You wouldn't get stable seeds from any cross. Using a hybrid as one of the parents would increase the diversity of what you'd get in the F2, I'd think. I don't know the background on this variety but it takes a lot of growing out and selecting to finally get a stable variety. Sounds like the shape is still not stable. We will see

[AlittleSalt]

I've been thinking of this over the past couple weeks. I think that Amish Gold Slicer and Amish Gold came from the same cross years ago.

[clkeiper]

I got these as free seeds from totally tomatoes this year. It was advertised as an open pollinated variety. I have one that I am going to plant. The germination on them was terrible, so I am lucky to have this one.