Details
- Open-Pollinated: no
- Type: indeterminate
- Shape: beefsteak slicer, squat with light pleating
- Color: red
- Maturity: mid-season
- 2013: 84 days to 1st harvest
- Size: “very large”
- 2013: 7.25 oz on average
- Yield: “prolific”
- 2013: 11 lbs per plant
- Taste: ?
- Disease Resistance:
- resistant to Verticillium wilt
- resistant to Fusarium wilt race 1
- resistant to nematodes
Notes:
Sources: (where to buy)
- Cross Country Nurseries (seedlings)
Results from My Garden:
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- Beefmaster – just shy of 1 pound
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- Beefmaster with zippering or scarring
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- 1 pound, 3 oz Beefmaster
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- Chickens like tomatoes…Beefmaster with scarring
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- Beefmaster with blossom end rot
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- Scarred Beefmaster
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- Last harvest Beefmasters
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- Last harvest Beefmasters
2013: new trial for this year; purchased one seedling from Cross Country Nurseries; no wilt (yay!) no curly top virus, maybe some powdery mildew (Leveillula), and a few got some blossom end rot, oh and some scarring or zippering from the flower; not very productive until the end of the season – had to harvest most of the tomatoes green in late November.
- Spacing: 24″x24″
- Total Yield: 24 tomatoes for 11 lbs; 7.25 oz on average
- Timing:
- Received seedling: late April
- Transplanted into 1-gal pot: early May
- Planted out: mid-May
- 1st Harvest: early August
- Last Harvest: late November
