Wowzer!

[bigpinks]

Big Beef is going crazy in my garden. Plants suckered to three stems have softball sized fruit at the bottom and many others almost as big. 23 fruit on one plant and still setting 5 ft off the ground. Don't know how they will taste.

[Worth1]

Probably taste like an old dish rag.
Worth

[bigpinks]

But I've never tasted a dishrag.

[Father'sDaughter]

If you've ever smelled an old dish rag, then you'd know it's not something you want to taste...

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by bigpinks

Big Beef is going crazy in my garden. Plants suckered to three stems have softball sized fruit at the bottom and many others almost as big. 23 fruit on one plant and still setting 5 ft off the ground. Don't know how they will taste.

Gratz! I never got my big beefs to kick off like that. But then again here is a strange area where pretty much everything is backwards. My heirlooms consistently and always outproduce my hybrids. My late planted tomatoes always outproduce my early sets. The less fertilizer I use the healthier my plants and I seldom water except during drought. everything's backwards from everyone else!

This year it was better boys that failed me! They been in existence for more than 50 years and a Guinness record holder for amount of fruit produced from a single plant. I planted them early but not too early. They did not get frosted . But sure enough I got 1 tomato from 6 plants!

[gorbelly]

Big Beef is a decent-tasting tomato. Nothing to write home about but also way better than what you could buy in the supermarket. Good, consistent producer for me in my zone 6b/7a garden. It's a good "backup" plant to make sure I get enough tomatoes even if I have failure with one or more of my OP or heirloom varieties.

[bigpinks]

this is the third yr for me and def by far the best they have ever done

[Gardeneer]

This is the 3rd year for me two. Past 2 season in PNW they did ok, production wise. But this year down here in the south my lone Big Beef is a tomato machine with much bigger fruits.
Big beef is well know for good taste for a hybrid. Plus it is pretty disease resistant too.
One more thing : I don't find any cracks and green shoulder on them. The make great sauce.

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

One more thing : I don't find any cracks and green shoulder on them.

Can't all be perfect.
Seriously though, you do realize the green shoulder gene is the "magic flavor gene" right?

How The Taste Of Tomatoes Went Bad (And Kept On Going)

It's true that here at Tomatoville we love pretty much anyone growing any tomato! Even commercial red tennis ball growers! But the reason heirlooms dominate is that those "ugly" genes are actually "flavor" genes!

[Nan_PA_6b]

And yet, so many folk say Big Beef has good taste. It's my mother's favorite-tasting tomato, and I ain't gonna argue with Mama!

Nan