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I have found several PDF files that I don't
seem to be able to get a web address for. If you use this one, you go to
Ohio State and you can do a search for gooseberries. There are several
articles available there, the one you want is Fruit ICM News. It's Ed
Mashburn talking about Ribes apparently grown and observed at his Northumberland
Berry Works in PA. First off I notice that he's been testing a lot of the
same vars that KY did. I think Ed started it. I note that both Ed and KY
are aiming at commercial production. I don't know why Glenndale was not
tested, it may have a small berry or poor color? Anyway, what I liked
about Ed's speech is that one of the two versions of it is updated in italics,
with comments about poor flavor and disease problems that was not covered in the
original. the original paper came out 2002, the other a few months later
in 03. I like at least knowing why certain varieties are being tested and
by whom. We are all a little like sheep, it's best to follow where others
have succeeded, but at least now I know who the sheep are that I am
following. I'd like a better look at where the others had trouble, so I
don't try going that way. But I also want to know what they have NOT
tried. The lack of any mention of Glenndale is interesting. I wonder
if Ed tried it, and others, that were found too sickly to be of interest.
Does anyone know how to get hold of his literature, besides this paper on the
successes? Donna
southcenters.osu.edu/horticulture/pdf.../vol-7-no-3-jan-30-03.pdf
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