They are the heavyweights among tomatoes, weighing between 150 and more than 1,000 grams. Due to their long ripening period, beefsteak tomatoes get the most sun and taste particularly aromatic. Get to know the best beefsteak tomato varieties here.

Red beefsteak tomatoes - the elite in the tomato field

  • Sandul Moldovan: light red fruits weighing 300-700 grams, harvest from the beginning of August
  • Nonna Antonia: red variety from Piedmont, 400-800 grams, late ripening
  • Bernese Rose: highly aromatic, pink-red fruits, 100-250 grams, very productive
  • Brandywine: firm, bright red tomatoes, 150-500 grams, excellent taste
  • Bulgarian pink giant: strong, pink tomatoes, 800-1200 grams, ripening medium early

Ox heart - classic beefsteak tomatoes from Russia

The extra meaty ox hearts came to America from Russia in 1901 and from there conquered tomato growers around the world.

  • Coeur de Boeuf: the red original ox heart from France, 100-350 grams, first class in taste and yield
  • Stierherz or Bic'je Serdze: orange-red variety from Eastern Europe, heart-shaped, tapering, 300-500 grams
  • White ox heart: yellow-white fruits, very aromatic, juicy, 150-300 grams, early harvest time

Black beefsteak tomato varieties

Dark-colored beefsteak tomatoes are rare and surprise with a complex aroma. High time to get acquainted with the robust power packs:

  • Black Prince: the star of the variety, juicy, thin-skinned, high-yield, 150-450 grams
  • Carbon: powerful, 2 meter high beefsteak tomato, best taste just before full ripeness, 100-250 grams
  • Black pineapple tomato: juicy, sweet, tenderly melting flesh, few seeds, 200-650 grams

Yellow beefsteak tomato varieties

Hobby gardeners who value a mild taste in their home-grown tomatoes prefer yellow varieties.

  • Azoychka: very early variety, delicate yellow skin, lemony aroma, 100-350 grams
  • Great White: light yellow fruits, firm to seeds, mild in taste, 150-350 grams
  • Uzbekistan II: flat-round, yellow fruits, 150-350 grams, ripen late, high-yielding, sweet and mild

Green beefsteak tomato varieties

If you want to harvest green beefsteak tomatoes, you will be spoiled with a refreshingly sour taste. However, eye contact alone is not enough to determine ripeness, because unripe tomatoes are also green and contain toxic solanine. Experienced tomato growers squeeze the skin and harvest green varieties when it gives way.

  • Cherokee Green: vigorous variety, thin skin, sour aroma, 150-350 grams
  • Green Moldava: a small beefsteak tomato with a great taste, 90-150 grams
  • Green Helarios: one of the most popular green varieties, 80-200 grams

tips and tricks

Beefsteak tomatoes are the ideal candidates for stick cultivation. Cultivated with one or two shoots, they deliver the highest crop yield. Any exhausting competitive drive at the grassroots level should therefore be broken out as early as possible.

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