Can anybody suggest any reliable tasty beefsteak/oxheart toms for next year? Costoluto and Marmande did not do well this year.
the variety called "beefsteak"
should be a good choice
"variety called "beefsteak"
tad specific ocean methinks
Black Krim is pretty good... indeed all the eastern european ones (Krim is polish IIRC) seem to do well. It's astonishingly early for a beefsteak in this country... downside is that if it's red it's very overripe. They start out lightgreen, grow to size, go dark green, then a purplish brown colour and that's when they are ripe, then they go red and are overripe.... It's an odd colour and it took me a while to get used to them but early and flasvoursome, good raw, better grilled. Outdoors they'll beat cherry tomatos to first ripe fruit if given the same treatment, indoors it isn't asking too much to expect nearly 20lbs of fruit a plant in an unheated greenhouse.... they do suffer more than most from the comedy beefsteak growth habits though.
chrisc,
I agree about the taste of Black Krim. Yummy.
we like marmande and black krim ;D
Beefmaster did best for me this year, nice and big, quite early (but still going now) and the won our local pubs tom taste test - although the testers were probably drunk :-)
Helen x
:) Black Krim and Cherokee Purple for me / shades x
Delicious, Porterhouse and Big Zac are also good choices.
no offense to manicscousers and chriscross1966 but marmande, and black krim are not beefsteak varieties. The seed cavities are to regular for that.