Personal Beefsteaks

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One of my favorites may well not appeal to others, and might not even be the same in another's garden.

Here's my list, however:

Any of the early, modest potato leaf sorts:
Kotlas, Glacier, Stupice, etc. Not particularly "beefsteaky" in habit, but the flavor is so wonderful compared to the early ping-pong ball sized determinates.

I like a yellow steak called Orange Russian (Doukhobors) (Not the orange heart). Very similar to Azoychka, but at least a week earlier. It was once offered by a Canadian tomatophile after having been collected from the Doukhobors in Manitoba.

I love an orange globe called Faribo Goldheart. Only about 20% actually have a vague heart shape, and none have the heart habit of a few seeds in the top, and lower part all flesh. The flavor and texture are wonderful in a tomato about 9-10 oz max.

John Baer/Bonny Best fit the description to a "T".

Years back, Carolyn and I communicated about Better Boy and Big Boy, and trying to dehybridized them. I worked on it for 10 years and eventually ending up with 3 keepers. One seems to resemble German Johnson, which corresponds to the parent we heard called the "Teddy Jones tomatoe".
One is a pink version much like the John Baer/Bonny Best mentioned above, and one delivers loads of pink globes about 1-1/2" in diameter. It's not as useful as they come late, but fast and furious when they do: about 25 little tomatoes a week until cold shuts them down. By then you're drowning in tomatoes and unable to fully appreciate them, but we run them through the tomato mill and make juice.

Finally, I have grown a few little known types. Buzau 22 and Efimir are favorites for me in that class

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