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Originally Posted by b54red
If I lived a bit further north I would still be growing them every year.Bill
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We must be a bit too far north. BB has been a bust every time we tried it. First we got a wrong variety. It was not much more than a round, red salad sized. The next time was more the right sized but on the verge of being a spitter. Even when we tried to give them away by putting them at the local Post Office, a few got taken but most had to be thrown out.
We must be turning the locals into tomato snobs. After many years of taking the extra heirlooms/OPs to give away, folks ask what happened to the "good" tomatoes, and "when are we getting the tomatoes that taste good".
The request is not to grow Big Beef and put the energy into more heart shaped and those ugly beefsteaks.
BB was the first to express diseases and I was afraid the good tomatoes would have the hybrid maladies spread all over the garden. Rouged them out and never again.