A beefsteak tomato (also spelled beef steak tomatoes) is a type of tomato that produces giant fruits. Most are indeterminate tomatoes which will require staking. Some are heirloom or heritage tomatoes. Others are modern hybrids.
These big tomatoes (usually weighing more than 1 lb.) are always juicy and flavorful. The beefstake tomato is one of the best types of tomatoes you can use for
canning tomato juice.
Ripe beefsteaks may be red, pink, yellow, purple, or orange. Yellow and orange varieties of tomatoes tend to be sweeter than the other colors.
Most of these are indeterminate tomatoes which will grow until cut down by frost. They need sturdy, tall tomato supports to hold up the enormous fruits.
A tomato trellis or a tall tomato ladder will provide better support than the average tomato cage.
How to Stake Tomatoes
will give you instructions for putting up an inexpensive tomato trellis.
Giant tomatoes need to receive even moisture throughout the growing season in order to keep them from cracking.
Watering Tomatoes
gives greater detail on this.
Growing Tomatoes from Seed
Growing tomatoes from seed. Starting homegrown tomatoes. Deciding between determinate and indeterminate varieties of tomatoes.
Brandywine Tomato
Pink Brandywine tomato. Growing yellow, red and black Brandywine heirloom tomatoes. How to grow heritage tomatoes. Tomato Brandywine plants.
Cherokee Purple Tomato
Cherokee Purple tomato is an open pollinated heirloom tomato plant. Growing Cherokee Purple heritage tomatoes. Purple, brown or black beefsteak tomatoes growing on fusarium wilt resistant, indeterminate vines.
Black Krim Tomato
After planting Black Krim tomato seeds, you will be harvesting beefsteak tomatoes within 80 days of setting the seedlings into the garden. These so called black tomatoes are actually dark red and brown at maturity.