Two Creeks fall to disease, third Creek is a Bear

[ScottinAtlanta]

Folks, Purple Dog Creek and Goose Creek grew fast, looked great, and then fell to diseases - some kind of the many yellow-leaves-blight stuff despite Daconil and Actinovate.

Bear Creek, on the other hand, shows no disease and is pumping out large globes. Again, is this a variety known for resistance?

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by ScottinAtlanta

Folks, Purple Dog Creek and Goose Creek grew fast, looked great, and then fell to diseases - some kind of the many yellow-leaves-blight stuff despite Daconil and Actinovate.

Bear Creek, on the other hand, shows no disease and is pumping out large globes. Again, is this a variety known for resistance?

Scott, Bear Creek was bred by Keith Mueller along with the following varieties:

http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/releases/

Many folks have grown many of what he bred and loved them and if you do a Google Search you'll even find several threads here at Tville where folks reported back on them.

But I don't remember Bear Creek or the others as being especially tolerant to any of the foliage diseases, either bacterial or fungal.

Hopefully others will comment more.

Carolyn, who edited to add that if youlook at Keith's pictures they aren't globes, rather beefsteak shaped and I bet a Google IMAGES would show the same.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...mg.warkXRYY8zM

Top row from Robbin's Bear Creek Farm and second row from KC Food blog, for example/

[travis]

Scott, the Bear Creek I grew (from seed bought from Gourmet International, grown and supplied to them by Robbins) had the shape of the tomato in your avatar. I remember the plants being disease free when some others nearby suffered from F, V, or Early Blight. Bear Creek's only problem seemed to be they didn't like wet feet, and preferred warm weather and drier soil. I've never grown Purple Dog Creek, and only grew Goose Creek two seasons with mixed results.

[camochef]

Scott,
Purple Dog Creek and Bear Creek both have been on my favorites list for a few years now. Most years they are among the last ones still producing and both have been in the #1 tasting tomatoes position, in my reviews.
I've never grown Goose Creek.

While Purple Dog Creek has great taste and the tomatoes it produces are large, they are also later than most of my favorite slicers.
Bear Creek also has great taste as do the sisters, Liz Birt, Dora, and Gary O'Sena, but it's more of a medium sized tomato. It has better production than Purple Dog Creek.

The only disease's I have to contend with most years are Septoria and occasional early blight. Neither seem to be immune to either one. Although not as susceptible as some of my other favorites. While I love, Stump of the World and Limbaugh's Legacy Potato Top They seem to be about the most susceptible of those I grow regularly, (and therefore have been eliminated from my gardens the past two years or so.)

It takes time and effort to experiment with different varieties to see which do best for you in your location, and weather patterns can greatly effect your annual results. Therefore, it's a necessity to keep a good journal or at least notes to refer back to as we cannot always rely on our memories. Most tomato gardeners don't always realize that too much water can be as bad as too little water, even worse as far as taste and texture goes.
Wishing you much good luck in your gardening adventures.
Enjoy!
Camo

[Fusion_power]

Bear Creek is a bit more tolerant to septoria than most OP tomatoes, but this is not a high level of tolerance, seems to be more of a huge vine that has a balanced fruit set effect. It is a good flavored tomato.

[efisakov]

I am afraid to jinx it, but Purple Dog Creek is a working hors for me right now. If it will give me only what it has on the vines (about 30 tomatoes), I will be happy. I am yet to taste one, though was told by many that it is delicious.
Thanks Camo for repeatedly praising it.