🍅 Quick take: Goose Creek is a legendary indeterminate red heirloom (originally introduced by Jimmy Williams) that produces massive oblate beefsteaks. Growers consider it an absolute masterpiece, praising its classic, sweet-leaning flavor that finishes with a lingering, pleasant aftertaste. Despite producing incredibly huge fruits (sometimes pushing nearly 2 lbs / 800 g), it manages to ripen surprisingly early and pumps out very heavy yields. Full summary ↓
Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4 Experience)
Seeds from Angelina. The catalog description is spot on: Mid-season, tall indet. Fruits are oblate, deep red, very tasty, large. Heavy yielder.
Another masterpiece tomato. It was my earliest one and absolutely delicious. Real tomato flavor, sweet-leaning but with a slight tang. Lingering aftertaste. Meaty but juicy, not a ton of seeds. Massive fruits, the biggest tomato I’ve ever grown came off this vine—about 28 oz (805 g). Highly productive on top of that.
Edited October 5, 2018 by Drosera
It looks so gorgeous sliced open… 🤤 And I swore I wasn’t adding any more varieties to my grow list..
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste and Storage
- 🌿 Plant: Indeterminate, mid-season vines. Despite producing enormous fruits, it is noted for ripening very early in the season compared to other large beefsteaks.
- 📈 Yield: Exceptionally high. Growers describe it as highly productive and a heavy yielder.
- 👅 Taste: A true masterpiece. Features an intense, classic tomato flavor that leans sweet with just enough tang to balance it out. The flesh is meaty yet juicy, with a long, lingering aftertaste.
- 📦 Storage: Produces massive oblate red fruits with relatively few seeds. Yulya harvested a giant weighing 28 oz (805 g), her largest tomato to date.
🍅 Have you grown Goose Creek? Drop a comment below! Did it throw massive fruits and ripen early for you too?
