Good article about Creole tomatoes

I don't like the "creole" variety. To me it's just meh, and not worth a spot in my garden.

Celebrity time after time wins in taste testing and production, so that's why it has always been a prevalent tomato. I plant celebrities for lots of tomatoes and everything else for fun.

Bella Rosa is another one that wins quite often in the taste testings as well.

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Celebrity time after time wins in taste testing and production, so that's why it has always been a prevalent tomato. I plant celebrities for lots of tomatoes and everything else for fun.

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Word. But I also plant heavy Arkansas travelers.

If yal ain't planting Cherokee purples you need to get ya head checked. Tons of big tomatoes and taste is insane

I like Purples, but just don't make enough. I'm trying Black Krim and Paul Robeson instead.

I got those exact plants from lowes. Wife told me she wanted to try a few things so I grabbed a few different things. Planting this weekend...first go at it.

this article won me a $100 bet when it was first published...

Yep, you are correct as far as I know. Soil in close proximity to the Mississippi river in Plaquemines parish around Braithwaite.

I used to go buy directly from a farmer down there that knew everything there was to know about Creoles.

My buddy owns a produce stand in the French Market that I used to work at. They have the Creole Tomato Festival down there every summer, so we would ride down the river quite often to load up on cases of fresh picked Creoles. The soil down there puts a little "citrus-y" taste that is noticeable in the tomato meat. Of course, I would explain this to Mom and Pop Tourist and it would blow there Kansas minds. People LOVE good Creoles.

River silt, or pump sand, is great. I have worked a lot of landscaping jobs in my life. We spread it out when laying sod and it is great for allowing small roots under grass squares to run and set in.

I also grew a "personal consumption" plant with a sweet, sweet leaf at my house once in Nola, complete outdoor grow. I used a combination of good ole dirt, river silt, and compost and baby girl was just the belle of the ball.

Where would one find these Paul Robeson tomatoes?

I've been growning Cherokee Purple and Black Krim, prefer them over the Brandywines (although I did plant a couple of Pinks this year).

I used to grow Creoles (as marked by Bonnie,not geography), and they were among my favorites until I started growing Heirlooms. Then they spoiled sitting on the counter.

Rareseeds.com is where I got mine a couple years ago. I didn't grow any this year. Kinda upset with myself for forgetting.