Purple Dog Creek
| Purple Dog Creek | |
|---|---|
| Maturity | late |
| Growth habit | indet. |
| Leaf type | regular |
| Fruit color | pink |
| Fruit shape | beefsteak |
| Fruit size | large |
| Fruit type | slicer |
| Variety type | family heirloom |
| Country | USA |
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B.C KO T
- Indet., regular leaf, large pink beefsteaks with smooth shoulders and very good flavor. 12-16 oz. (15 seeds / packet)
Seed source:
- 1. Doug Zuknick, Romney, West Virginia 07
- 2. Susan Anderson of Elgin, Texas (TX AN S) 11 / Neil Lockhart of Oblong, Illinois (IL LO N) 08 / Doug Zuknick, Romney, West Virginia 06
- 3. Kath Weidemoyer, Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania 12 / "michigander gardener" at Tomatoville forum
Year grown: 2011 (1, crop failure), 2013(1)
Location: Zone 7b, PNW, Anmore, BC, Canada (760 ft above sea level)
IL LO N
- 85 days, indet., regular leaf plant with a good yield of 16-24 oz pink beefsteak fruit, excellent flavor.
Seed source:
- Doug Zuknick, Romney, West Virginia 06
Year grown: 2007
Location: Oblong, Illinois
KY ST M
- If they gave out blue ribbons for taste alone, this tomato would be sure to win. It won in our own taste contest - sweet, yes, but a complex blend of sweet tastes all mixed up. Hard to describe! We might call it pink, but in times past this tomato color was called purple. They weigh in the one pound range, and produced right through the drought.
Seed source:
- Terry Raso
Year grown: 2008
Location: Sonora, Kentucky
TX GU R
- 75 days, indet., regular leaf, huge pink beefsteak up to 2 lbs., tremendously productive, a new favorite must grow.
Seed source:
- Doug Zuknick, Romney, West Virginia 06
Year grown: 2007
Location: Pasadena, Texas
WV SI R
- 80 days, indeterminate, regular leaf plant with good production of 1 to 2 pound pink beefsteak fruit. Another really good tasting large pink beefsteak, but subject to sunscald.
Seed source:
- James "Spud" Raney, Martinsburg, West Virginia
Year grown: 2005, 2006
Location: Martinsburg, West Virginia 2005
History
- A family heirloom from the small community of Dog Creek near Munfordville, Kentucky.
- Collected by Randy Sine of West Virginia. This is a story that Randy shared:
- "Members of the Winchester Avenue Church in Martinsburg, WV did charity work in depressed rural Appalachian communities. They did renovations of churches and barns and basically helped out in whatever way they could. At one of the communities in the Purple Dog Creek region of Kentucky near Munfordville a picnic dinner was given as a "thank you". Mr. Bill Hoffman as if he could take of couple of the tomatoes with him for his friend. Bill brought the tomatoes back to Martinsburg and gave them to my friend Spud Raney. Spud ate one to taste it and saved seeds from the other. Spud then called me and said I've got a good one, you might want to come get seeds. I traded with people and listed it in the SSE and Spud sells through the WV Market Bulletin. Between us we got the tomato into circulation."
- Introduced to SSE in 2008 by four members.
Picture Gallery
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Purple Dog Creek (Doug Z.) - plant. 2013-06-23.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Purple Dog Creek - flower. 2013-07-22.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Purple Dog Creek - baby fruit. 2013-07-16.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Purple Dog Creek - greeen fruit. 2013-08-12.
Patty Brown, Ohio. Purple Dog Creek - ripening fruit. 2008. Posted with owner's permisson.
Patty Brown, Ohio. Purple Dog Creek - ripening. 2008. Posted with owner's permission.
Patty Brown, Ohio. Purple Dog Creek - ripe fruit. 2008. Posted with owner's permission.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Purple Dog Creek - ripe fruit. 2013-09-13.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Purple Dog Creek - ripe fruit. 2013-09-13.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Purple Dog Creek - ripe fruit. 2013-09-15.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Purple Dog Creek - ripe fruit. 2013-09-30.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Purple Dog Creek - sliced fruit. 2013-09-15.
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Seed Availability
| Year | Commercial Vendors | Seed Savers Yearbook (Member listings) | Seeds of Diversity (Member listings) |
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| 2014 | Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Diane's Flower Seeds |
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| 2013 | Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds - sold out for 2013 Blue Ribbon Tomatoes Knapp's Fresh Vegies Secret Seed Cartel - new |
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| 2012 | Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds - new | . | . |
| 2011 | Knapp's Fresh Vegies - new Marianna's Heirloom Seeds - new |
8 | 1 |
| 2010 | 6 | . | |
| 2009 | Blue Ribbon Tomatoes | 4 | . |
| 2008 | 4 | . | |
| 2007 | 0 | . |
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