New for
2025!
Black Goose Creek
($9.95)
80 days
This big, heavy,
delicious
cross of Goose Creek and Black Krim was created by famed author,
long-time market grower and agricultural guru Jimmy Williams whose family
of enslaved people, including his great, great grandmother
Elouise Watson, had hidden the original red Goose Creek tomato
seeds in her skirt pocket on her journey from the Caribbean
Islands to the The Carolinas many generations ago. This was in
the mid 19th century around 1845 when she was transported to grow rice in the US.
The boat docked at Charleston, near Goose Creek, South Carolina.
A truly marvelous
tomato, the flavors of Black
Goose Creek linger in your mouth as they morphs from tangy to
sweet to passionately rich and fragrant -- a taste experience you won't
forget. The tomatoes here in AJ's photograph were devoured
pretty quickly, a heavenly experience. Didn't even stop to save seeds
and had to wait for the next ripe ones...
In the early 2000's,
Jimmy cross-pollinated the 2 varieties -- and after a few
generations it stabilized -- creating this unforgettable black tomato for
your garden. Big beefsteak fruits with deep dark red flesh, the
flavor is out of this world.
Among the black
tomatoes, Black Goose Creek stands out: Big, very
heavy-in-the-hand, 8 to 14 ounces with extraordinary flavors. An
adventuresome tomato. Spending a few hours talking, hanging out
or gardening with Jimmy is an adventure in itself.
