What are your favorite tomatoes?

eat these right out of the garden with a side of cucumber

Creoles an purple heirlooms my aunt grows.

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Creole from my dads garden

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Either this when the getting is good or the Lakeside heirlooms that are yellow-orange in color.

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South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato is the best one I have eaten

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Hard to beat a Bradley

I grow a lot of Cherokee purples and an old Gulf States tomato. Both have great flavor. If you can find a Louisiana Pink grow them hard to find but a ripe one cut open will make your whole house smell like a fresh tomato.

Creole are the best....growing season is way too short

I grew some big beef tomatoes this year and I love them.

Brandywine. Not crazy productive, but great flavor. But I like pretty much every tomato that's grown in dirt and cow manure in someone's garden. Give me a loaf of white bread, a jar of mayo, S&P and some homegrown tomatoes, and I'm happier than a pig in slop.

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Most people don't realize the most creole tomatoes are in fact not creole tomato. What you buy at the store called creole is actually probably a celebrity tomato.

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This is true. There was never a true variety of creole tomato. It was a common name given to Louisiana grown beefsteak tomatoes.

There's now a modern "creole" developed to try to emulate the charateristics of the old "creoles".

Celebrity is a good tomato though. It always performs well in taste test trials and produces a ton of tomatoes for a determinate.

I prefer the brandywines due to texture and taste. The crop I had this year rivaled the production of my celebrities.

Black Krims grow great for me in CA.