Only place I can find them is Stark Bro’s , but I do not trust them much. I opened the nursery list published here and started checking them one by one. I am about 1/3 down the list, but none of them selling Ginger Gold. Is there something I do not know about this apple - some legal issues may be, some undesirable characteristics, why nobody selling them?
Galinas, I have only ever eaten Ginger Gold that I bought from a grocery store and I was very disappointed in them. Others may have had different experiences but I just thought they lacked character. Not very flavorful and not very sweet, I thought, not even as good as Transparent, which I don’t care for much. To my mind GG’s biggest virtue is it earliness and attractive appearance. So it may be that you’re not finding them because there just hasn’t been very much interest in them.
All that being said, it may just be that my early experience was negative enough that I never gave the apple a fair chance. So don’t let me put you off.
Good luck,
M
I am surprised… Every year I am waiting for them to be ready on PYO. I love them probably more then any other
American apples. The right ones are sweet-sour, and the flesh is crisp, skin is not rubber, and they can be huge as well. They appear in the store a bit late then in PYO, usually smaller in size, but still pretty good. I think may be they sold some other apple under Ginger Gold name when you bought it. I once eat apple that fits your description, and it is actually looks like GG, it was Pristine and it didn’t impress me at all…
maybe Adams County Nursery
Galina,
I had Ginger Gold at Tougas Farm in Northboro, a PYO orchard. That was a few years ago. The taste was not memorable. It is an early apple. Taste-wise, I prefer my William’s Pride to Ginger Gold.
If you don’t mind ordering via postal mail, Schlabach Nursery carries it.
Carries Ginger Gold or William’s Pride? I am very surprised you guys do not like GG. I will come by your house next fall when going from PYO and give you one I think is good to try 
Thanks! I looked at their web site - they do not have 2017 catalog yet.
Schlach has Ginger Gold.
Taste is very subjective. There are plenty of people here who like GG. I do not say I do not like it. I just like other apples more.
Agree, but also it may be just bad luck… This year I was picking apples in the orchard - not GG, honeycrisp. Apples from the same tree were different - some completely bland, no taste at all, and some(especially ones that had russets on, though they shouldn’t have any) were very intense and good in taste. Funny thing is, none of them - bad or good - were true to to kind taste. I know it because I pick from same apple tree every year, they usually all taste “in the middle”, I was puzzled why taste of two apples growing on the SAME branch is so different. May be you had same experience with GG.
That may have been my situation; I’ll give them another chance next year!
Another factor is location and year. Some years my Liberties, which in a good year I find to be terrific, are very so-so. In fact, this is one of those years. Maybe the tree that grew my GG’s just wasn’t getting everything it needed from the soil to make its best apples. So I shouldn’t leap to judgement so fast!
:-)M
Orange pippin trees did have them but it seems as though they are sold out. You might want to check Grandpas orchard in a few days. They don’t start accepting orders until after Thanksgiving but they do list Ginger Gold as one of the varieties they carry.
Also, it appears to me as though ACN is carrying them right now and you can order them:
https://www.acnursery.com/fruit-trees/apple-trees/47/ginger-gold
GG is an apple very tempting to pick too early, and they are boring then. When fully ripened they are a fine summer apple. Williams Pride is more tasty but for me it was getting extreme watercore.
GG being a summer apple acts like one here. I need to pick mine before or when the skin gets half yellow. If the skin gets all yellow they are mush. The difference is only a couple of days. Also the picking season is many weeks if not longer. Each apple needs regular inspection in order to get harvest timing right. That may relate to our lack of chilling. The bloom season lasts for months. This yr some of the June/July bloom set seedless fruit. Those fruit hung on the tree very hard for two months after normal harvest date. They were very good apples.
My primary point is summer apples can be very location dependent.
Thanks, yes, they are, but not in dwarf. In my super tiny yard I only can afford dwarf trees
Schlabach has it on B 9. It is a very good nursery and offers a good price. $15 a tree if you buy 1-5 trees. It gets chaeper as you buy more. Shipping is the same for almost every nursery.
How do you find them and how do you order from them? Do you have a paper catalog? i can’t find their catalog online.
They don’t do anything online. They are Amish. You have to call them (or write.)
585-798-6198 is the number I have. I’ve heard they’ve changed numbers recently, so not sure if this is the new number or the old one.
If you check the reference section on this forum, there is a nursery list.
Schlabach is on that list. You can call the number listed and ask for a catalog.
When you get a catalog, you can complete an attached order form and send the form in with a check in the mail. One year, the tree died with no obvious cause, they sent a new tree. No question asked, no proof needed.
They are honest people. When I overpaid, they sent me a refund. When I underpaid, they sent me the stuff with a note about how much I still owed them.
It is a cumbersome process but I like their products and price. If you want to talk to them, calling them in the morning , you may be able to talk to someone there.
Thanks! I will try that.
They offer good varieties of fruit trees and gardening products for pests and
disease. I like this nursery.
Do you happen to have 2017 catalog?