Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners

Reviewed on 11/01/2009 by TheFluffyOne - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Kane, Illinois, United States Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days Soil Texture: Loam Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
I have grown this tomato for years for various reasons. For one it taste very good, a couple of steps down from other beefsteaks like Brandywine or Cherokee Purple, but you are talking about major flavor heavy weights there and this is excellent none the less. One of the main reasons I grow it, is it is a consistent performer, and invariably when other varieties have trouble this one comes through assuring me a beefsteak harvest. Other heriloom varieties have their bland years, their good years, great years, and stellar years, this variety is always good occasionally great but never stellar nor bland. This tomato is seedier and a bit less meaty than the afore mentioned but it is more consistent in shape, size, ripens evenly and is productive. This is a very large beefsteak. I dry tomatoes for preservation and this is a decent drier, though not as good once again as Brandywine or Cherokee Purple because it is seedier and wetter. My seed source is Burpee.\\r\\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\\r\\nUpdate 2010: This remains a consistent performer. Pretty much ditto the 2009 comments. Added observation this one performs decently in semi shade.\r\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Update 2018 I continue to grow this one 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and it remains a consistent performer when other beefsteaks do not want to produce. The flavor is good, not exceptional but certainly very tasty. Just a great workhorse.