Aunt Ginny's Purple
| Aunt Ginny's Purple | |
|---|---|
| Maturity | midseason |
| Growth habit | indet. |
| Leaf type | potato |
| Fruit color | pink |
| Fruit shape | beefsteak, oblate |
| Fruit size | large |
| Fruit type | slicer |
| Variety type | family heirloom |
| Country | Germany |
B.C KO T
- Midseason, indet., potato leaf, pink beefsteak type fruits, 7-16 oz, outstanding flavor, even when not fully ripe, very sweet, one of my favorite tomatoes. Not very productive in my climate as it sets fruit late here in PNW and does not ripen lots of fruits before frost, but it is very well worth growing for flavor.
- Seed Source
- 1. Reimer Seeds
- 2. The Sample Seed Shop 11
- 3. Tomato Growers Supply 11
- 4. Denise Salmon, Vancouver, BC 04 / WI MI B (Bill Minkey, WI) / IN BU R 91 (Rick Burkhart, Indianapolis, Indiana)
|2006 (#1), 2011 (#1)}}
MI FL J
- Large vines need caging or staking, large (8-14 oz) dark pink fruits with green shoulders, very productive, excellent sweet tomato flavor, highly recommended. For me these are on par with Brandywine, but typically more productive.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / OK ME D (Darrell Merrell of Tulsa, Oklahoma) / NY MA C (Carolyn Male, NY) / WI MI B (Bill Minkey, WI)
Year: 97, 99, 02, 04
Location: Augusta Michigan
IL LO N
- 80 days, indet., potato leaf plant, 1 lb pink fruit, very good taste, good yield.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / WI MI B 95 (Bill Minkey of Wisconsin) / IN BU R 91 (Rick Burkhart, Indianapolis, Indiana)
Location: Oblong, Illinois
TX GU R
- 80 days, indet., potato leaf, 8-12 oz, sweet tasting, productive, a favorite.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / Donna Meinschein, Maryland / IN BU R (Rick Burkhart of Indianapolis, Indiana)
Location: Pasadena, Texas
TX AN S
- 80-85 days, indet., vigorous potato leaf plants producing a high yield of 8-16 oz dark pink beefsteaks with excellent flavor, very juicy, a favorite.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds
Year:
Location: Bastrop, Texas
GERM SC K
- purple beefsteak tomato, indet.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / Manfred Hahm-Hartmann
Year: 2011
Location: Quitzdorf am See, Germany
History
- A family heirloom from Germany.
- First introduced in the SSE 1991 Yearbook by Rick Burkhart of Indianapolis, Indiana (IN BU R). Burkhart's family has raised it for over 25 years, since the late 1960s. Rick Burkhart listed this variety for only one year in the SSE Yearbook, and if it weren't for Bill Minkey, who scanned Yearbooks closely for newly listed varieties and reoffered seeds, this wonderful variety wouldn't have been well known today. Rick indicated that this variety was originally from Germany, and original name was unknown.
- One of the 100 varieties noted in Carolyn J. Male's book "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden".
- Eleven commercial sources in 2004 were noted in the Garden Seed Inventory 6th edition.
See also
Picture Gallery
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Aunt Ginny's Purple (Rob Gee) - seedling. 2011-03-15.
Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Aunt Ginny's Purple - leaf. June 7, 2011.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Aunt Ginny's Purple (Rob Gee) - seedling planted. 2011-05-26.
Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Aunt Ginny's Purple - flower. June 7, 2011.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Aunt Ginny's Purple - flower. 2012-07-24.
Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Aunt Ginny's Purple - baby fruit. July 2011.
Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Aunt Ginny's Purple - baby fruit. June 18, 2011.
Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Aunt Ginny's Purple - green fruit. June 28, 2011.
Pam Albert, Canada. Aunt Ginny's Purple - green fruit. (posted with the owner's permission)
Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Aunt Ginny's Purple - ripening fruit. July 2011.
Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Aunt Ginny's Purple - ripe fruit. July 2011.
Susan Anderson (TX AN S): Aunt Ginny's Purple.
John Beidler (CT BE J). Aunt Ginny's Purple. 2009
Susan Anderson (TX AN S): Aunt Ginny's Purple - sliced.
Jeff Fleming (MI FL J). Aunt Ginny's Purple-pic#3, 2006
John Beidler (CT BE J). Aunt Ginny's Purple-sliced. 2009
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