Danni Girl, Aunt Ruby's German Green is one of the heirloom tomato varieties often found on seed racks. When I first started growing heirloon tomatoes in the early to mid-1990s, I bought seeds of Brandywine, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Mortgage Lifter and Big Rainbow on a seed rack in a Fort Worth feed store, although I don't remember if they were labeled as heirloom seeds or if they were just on the regular rack with all of Burpee's other seeds. I do know that by the late 1990s, Burpee had a separate seed rack of heirloom varieties that sat right next to the 'regular seeds' and that seed rack had about 30 or 35 varieties of heirloom veggies and flowers labeled as heirlooms and in seed packets that were slightly different in appearance from the regular packets....they had an 'heirloom' look to the seed packets. I haven't looked very closely at Wal-Mart's seed racks the last couple of years since most of what I grow cannot be found on seed racks, but I do think that the selection of seeds from Ferry-Morse is a better selection that what they had back when they carried Burpee seeds. To be fair to Burpee though, I think their selection of seeds on the seed racks at Home Depot is a better selection of varieties than they had at Wal-Mart too back when Wal-Mart carried Burpee seeds. I am sorry to hear you lost your seeds in a recent move. It is quite frustrating when something like that happens. A lot of us are 'seed collectors', you know, and always buy far too many seeds and have lots of extras sitting around. Why don't you post a list of seed (flower, vegetable, herb) varieties you're looking for to grow this year, and maybe some of us will have some of them and would be willing to share? I know that I'd be happy to send you some seeds if I have any of the varieties you're looking for. It is expensive to try to replace your whole seed stash all at once. I keep my seeds in a big plastic storage tote in the tornado shelter about 90% of the time---that way, if our house ever gets hit by a house fire or tornado, my seeds are safe. Of course, if the house were damaged or destroyed, I doubt I'd be worrying about planting a garden for a while, but at least the seeds would be waiting for me when I was able to get back to gardening again. Anyway, if you want to post a list of seeds you'd like to have, I am sure many of the generous gardeners here would be willing to help you rebuild your seed supply. I feel sure of that....because I know the folks who post here have big hearts and are always willing to help out one another. My memory is not so great either....and I notice it is worse and worse every year. You don't suppose we all keep getting older every year, do you? OK, so maybe we do keep aging.....we're aging just like a fine wine. LOL Dawn

I am growing this as part of a mix pack. The picture i got showed a smaller more even green all over look to it. we will see what grows I guess. Ill be posting pics no doubt. keep an eye out for them and remind me of this post.

I checked my 2011 Yearbook, I checked Tania's site and I Googled it and can find no mention of it. I didn't check for it at any of the European comprehensive sites such as Tomodori or Ventmarin Not all seed sites are listed via Google so it could be somewhere out there. There is a variety called German Gold, as in Mammoth German Gold, so would someone have made an error in writing Aunt Ruby's German Gold. I can tell you that ARGG does cross easily so perhaps that's the origin of this variety after someone dehybridized the initial hybrid. Unless someone comes along and knows about it if I were you I'd contact the person who sent you the seeds and ask for more information, especially with respect to whether or not it's genetically stable. Oh, and I did check to see if it might be a gold/red bicolor derived from a natural or directed cross, but saw nothing. So fingers crossed that someone will know about it before, well, you can still contact the person who sent you the seeds for more information in the meantime. Carolyn

Hoosier, Maybe that's the trick--not necessarily good healthy growing conditions but water soluble "steroids" thru drip fertigation--I don't know;-) LGS was grown in about 3 gallons of ProMix and compost (2:1) in a 4 gallon bucket, watered daily. The tomato on the upper left was probably about the smallest one of about 20-25+ fruits. Here's the blossom side pic: You're welcome to seeds next year if you want, contact me this Winter when I have all my varieties in 1 place. Sprtsguy76 too. Sprtsguy76, See some of my recommendations in the thread below for strong taste. Be sure to see the keywords explanation I listed to come to those conclusions. Have pics for all except maybe Old Brooks. Mark Here is a link that might be useful: Looking for suggestions for STRONGEST tomato flavor