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Old January 29, 2006   #3
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Default Most green when ripes are wonderful - some comments below

The Green when ripes I've grown are:

Green Giant - superb flavor, unique in being potato leaf
Aunt Ruby's Green - also superb, but is inconsistent for me in terms of yield, disease susceptibility.
Dorothy's Green (formerly - and still - listed in the SSE as just "Green") - wonderful variety, very disease prone in NC, similar in color and flavor to Evergreen but a bit larger and smoother
Evergreen - delicious, tricky for me to grow to success in NC
Cherokee Green - right up there with Green Giant and Aunt Ruby in flavor/quality
Grune Helarios - fruits large, somewhat fluted, large seed cavities, not my favorite in terms of texture, flavor pretty good, yielded heavily
Kasachstan Grune Fleisch - large green paste type, never softens to a pleasant edibility! Very odd indeed.
Green Grape - I am still looking for the indet. "strain" - pretty good, not really a favorite to eat
Green Zebra - struggles with disease in NC - when fully ripe flavor is quite good. Certainly pretty!
Lime Green Salad - I really like this one - excels in pots, heavy yields, very good flavor.

I am trying Grub's Mystery, and have seeds for others - Green Thumb, Green Velvet, Moldovan Green, Big Green Zebra, Green Thumb - but have yet to try them.
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