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Todd1700 June 21, 2018 09:39 PM

Big Beef
 
I used to always recommend Better Boys as the best all around hybrid tomato but I have a new favorite. Big Beef. They don't get huge like Beefsteak type tomatoes but they do produce a lot of really nice sized tomatoes. All of them are about the size of the one pictured in my hand. Very smooth, pretty shaped tomatoes. Taste good too. I have picked 7 tomatoes off the plant in the photo already and it's still going strong. I have had tomatoes plants give me lots of tomatoes before but never this many of such a really good size. Oh, and they produced the first ripe tomato in my garden as well beating my Better Boys, Cherokee Purple, German Queens, Parks Whoppers and even an Early Girl to the punch.
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mikemansker June 22, 2018 07:29 AM

Big Beef has always been one of my favorites.

Johnniemar June 22, 2018 09:18 AM

Big beef is a great tomato. It beat early girl in my garden this season as well. 60 dtm.

brownrexx June 22, 2018 09:48 AM

I grow some heirlooms but I always grow some Big Beef for dependable production.

Goodloe June 22, 2018 02:50 PM

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I agree...Big Beef is a solid tomato. I plant 6 of them every year. My wife picked this one yesterday.[ATTACH]82401[/ATTACH]

clkeiper June 22, 2018 05:25 PM

big beef all the way. I grow about 50 of them. the other 150 are other varieties.

RJGlew June 22, 2018 05:35 PM

[QUOTE=Johnniemar;705368]Big beef is a great tomato. It beat early girl in my garden this season as well. 60 dtm.[/QUOTE]

Early Girl F1 is early in name only.

cjp1953 June 22, 2018 06:13 PM

I might have to try that next year.I have Early girl,Rutgers,Black Krim ,Purple Cherokee and Box Car Willie that have tomatoes but none near being ripe.

NarnianGarden June 22, 2018 06:26 PM

I have one BB growing this year. Too many folks praised it on Tomatoville, so I had to give my Mom a chance to taste it :) So far, the plant looks nice and sturdy, and the size is reasonable. not like a huge monster (yet)..

JRinPA June 22, 2018 10:17 PM

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Big Beef is my favorite multipurpose hybrid. I made the switch from Better Boy about 5 or so years back, when two Big Beef plants outproduced five Better Boys. If I could grow only one tomato, Big Beef would be it.

I'm trying something a little different with them this year...25 of them in about 27 foot row, suckered down to two growing tips and weaved...with 25 sweet peppers about a foot to the southeast spaced in the gaps. It [I]was[/I] going to be single stem but they were under agribon to start. Between peeks, they pushed the top and each formed a large sucker with a second truss, right after the first truss. So, now it is two tips. So far so good; I just finished the 4th weave on the big beefs, and started the pepper weave.

It's the kind of experiment I wouldn't bother trying with almost any other tomato. I need to make both salsa and chili sauce again this year and am hoping this does the trick. Here's to Big Beef!


Pics from a few weeks ago...

Todd1700 June 23, 2018 01:23 AM

That looks awesome. And with that many Big beefs in the ground you sure aren't likely to have a tomato shortage this year. LOL!

Nan_PA_6b June 26, 2018 05:07 PM

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My mom with her biggest Big Beef last year @1 lb, 11 oz.



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Goodloe June 26, 2018 05:21 PM

:aprd: @ Nan's Mom!!

Dewayne mater June 26, 2018 06:32 PM

Dependable, productive as all get out and long holders when ripe. Mostly an heirloom guy, but would not have a season with out it!

Goodloe June 26, 2018 09:22 PM

I agree with you, Dewayne. If I had my druthers, I'd grow ONLY Big Beef, but you nice folks here on TV keep sending me all these cool seeds!! It's tough, I tell ya!


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