Beefsteak Tomatoes

About Beefsteak Tomatoes

Beefsteak Tomatoes

Beefsteak tomatoes are the largest varieties of cultivated tomatoes, some weighing 1 pound or more. Most are pink or red with numerous small seed compartments distributed throughout the fruit, sometimes displaying pronounced ribbing similar to ancient pre-Columbian tomato cultivars. While popular among home growers for sandwich making and other applications requiring a large tomato to be eaten raw.

Abraham Lincoln Original

Beautiful dark red fruits, sweet, solid and meaty. Fruits are smooth, free from cracks and seams, and ripen all the way through. Ideal for ketchup, juice or slicing. Sturdy plants.

  • 87 days from transplant
  • Indeterminate

Box Car Willie

This old-timer might become your main crop variety, due to its prolific yields of smooth, reddish-orange fruits averaging a large 10 to 16 oz. This tomato will last throughout the season and are ideal for canning, freezing or for home-cooked meals. Crack-free and disease resistant.

  • 80 days from transplant
  • Indeterminate

Red Brandywine

Large vines produce fruits that are 8-12 oz. and deep red in color. Very productive excellent taste.

  • 80 days from transplant
  • Indeterminate

German Johnson Pink

Potato-leaf plants produce large 1-2 pound meaty fruits with few seeds, very little cracking or blossom scars. Full sweet flavor, excellent for canning and freezing.

  • 85 days from transplant
  • Indeterminate

Giant Belgium

Huge, sweet fruits average 1 to 2 lbs. Dark pink fruits have smooth blossom ends and a low-acid, mild flavor, so sweet that some growers use them to make wine. Solid meat and size means one slice per sandwich!

  • 82-90 days from transplant
  • Indeterminate

Hillbilly

 Huge, mild flavor, beefsteak type fruit weighs 1-2lbs. each, and are colored a most unusual orange-yellow, streaked and mottled in shades of red and pink.

  • 85 days from transplant
  • Indeterminate

Mule Team

Vigorous fruit set, round medium-sized, red globes that weigh 8-1/2 oz. and are 2-1/2 to 3 across, with a sweet mild flavor. Meaty textured fruit are produced continuously till frost on sturdy plants.

  • 78 days from transplant
  • Indeterminate

Ponderosa Red

This old-time favorite is an extra-large, beefsteak-type with mild flavor. Almost seedless, with low-acid, solid, meaty, deep red flesh. Vigorous vines produce heavily.

  • 80 days from transplant
  • Indeterminate

Italian Heirloom

Plants are completely loaded with fruits weighing over a pound. Excellent, full of tomato flavor. Easy to peel, ideal for slicing or canning, very little waste.

  • 70-80 days from transplant
  • Indeterminate

Giant Syrian

Nice yields of pinkish red fruits often exceeding 1 pound. Very meaty, few seeds, excellent flavor.

  • 80 days from transplant
  • Indeterminate

Mortgage Lifter

Great old fashioned flavor. 1-2 pound beefsteak fruits. Extremely meaty and typically crack free.

  • 80-90 days from transplant
  • Indeterminate