Variety performance review
Celebrity Tomato in the Upper Southeast.
- Excellent
- Multiple — Park Seed, Burpee, others
- 70–72 days from transplant
- Organic-approved
Regional strengths
Celebrity is consistently rated among the best determinate-hybrid slicer tomatoes for the Upper Southeast — disease package is broad enough to handle the Verticillium / Fusarium / nematode complex that plagues Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina home and market gardens. AAS-winning track record predates current varietal trends but holds up.
Regional weaknesses
Celebrity is determinate — set is concentrated in a 3–4 week window rather than spread across the season; not the right pick for season-long fresh tomato supply. Late blight resistance is fair; in wet years, fungicide protection helps.
Agronomic ratings
Drought tolerance
fair
Standability
good
Emergence
good
Winter hardiness
na
Disease resistance
- Verticillium wilt:good
- Fusarium wilt (race 1, 2):good
- Tomato mosaic virus:good
- Nematodes:good
- Early blight:fair
- Late blight:fair
Best for
- home gardens
- small-scale market growers
- concentrated harvest for canning
Not recommended for
- season-long fresh-supply operations (use indeterminate varieties)
Best soil types
silt loam, well-drained loam
Seeding rate
Transplant only — typical 1,500–2,000 plants/acre commercial; 2–3 plants per 4-foot row in home gardens
Farmer notes
Celebrity is one of the most-recommended varieties in master gardener literature across the Mid-South — long-running consensus pick for home gardeners.
Data quality & sources
Quality: trial-verified · Last updated 2024.