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One of my Spanish tomatoes. This was a seedling that was growing in my neighbour's compost heap so no idea of variety. It weighed 551gms and tasted delish.
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Bet that made a few tasty egg and tomato sandwiches ! Looks like one of the beefsteak varieties. They all seem to have unsightly cracks and wrinkles around the calyx.
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Beefsteaks are amazing and great flavour. Haven't taken any photographs this year but we've had several Beefmaster well over a pound (my wife leaves the scales on Imperial) but here's a Pink Caspian from a year or two ago.

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Mine look just like that (that's the splitting) - not as big by far though! Fortunately the younger fruit is not splitting and growing nicely and bigger already than the early ones that did split. The split doesn't matter - loose a bit of flesh but the flavour is the same as Bussinspain hopefully will agree.
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We ate the largest one without weighing it but I've picked a tray full of Double Rich this afternoon that weigh between 350 and 450 g and they seem huge, so yours must be a whopper. I think the seeds originally came from someone on this forum, was there a Cevenol jardin user name I think from France? It is still my favourite beefsteak tomato and I save a few seeds from the best plant every year.
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Yesterday's tomato harvest.
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Wow Plum. That's an impressive harvest. How many fruits does each plant normally grow? And are they grown in the greenhouse or outdoors? I have only grown Marmande in the beefsteak range and found them rather disappointing so if anybody can recommend a beefsteak with good flavour for next year I will give them a try.
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I picked some Ferline tomatoes today. They seemed much larger than I recall last year's crop were but the flavour was wonderful. I'm wondering I'd this was due to an increased sugar content triggered by a few days of intense sunshine earlier on.
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PP!
I think definitely the mini heat wave helped our toms - maybe another one to come if that front can move up from the medi, Not at 40+ degrees though!
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I grow them in the greenhouse Primrose, and there are between fifteen and twenty on each plant this year. They're a good size too they must like the compost, Miracle grow. I did wonder whether the mini heatwave earlier helped a good set, although the few hot days later on prevented the fruit set on the ones in flower that week because I forgot to open the vents one morning and they nearly cooked.
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