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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sources Nicklow's Delight?
  • Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:50:46 -0600

I'm pretty sure Nicklow's Delight was a hybrid, meaning that the effort to save the variety involves trying to derive each of the parents from the offspring seed, which is pretty dubious. Perhaps they had seed of the parents to work with, but one or both batches of seed were bad. I hope they were at least able to save some sound seed to use for breeding purposes. Nicklow's Delight had the strongest resistance to Black Rot disease of any butternut squash I ever had in trial.
 
Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist - Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html
-----Original Message-----
From: road's end farm <organic101 AT linkny.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sources Nicklow's Delight?



On Feb 20, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Windsoap AT aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 2/20/2005 5:59:52 PM Central Standard Time, organic101 writes:
I used to get this from Johnny's
ASK JOHNNIE'S.
 

I did that, eventually. They told me that Nicklow has died, very unfortunate; and that they took what seed was available of this and tried to save the variety, but failed, as the seed was of poor quality. Maybe he had not been able to maintain it for some time.

I do have some old seed of this but if Johnny's couldn't save the strain I very much doubt that I can, their resources for this are better than mine.

Bah, and other stronger language --



-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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