Notes
Beefsteak workhorse. 1-row 24 in.
Cultivars / Solanaceous
Big Beef
Tomato · Solanum lycopersicum
DTM
73 d
167 d occupancy · tender
Rows
1
24 in in-row
Density
0.5
plants / bed-ft
Yield
4
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$12.32
$3.50 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 52 d
- Germination
- 6 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 90°F (opt 78°F)
- Seed spacing
- 24 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 1
- In-row
- 24 in
- Seed spacing
- 24 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 0.5
- Plants / 50 ft
- 25
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 73 d
- Holding
- 50 d
- Occupancy
- 167 d
- Multicut
- yes · 12 cuts · 4 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 4
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 4 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.25 / $3.50
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 1
- Emitter spacing
- 12 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.6 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 25
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 124.7
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 2.8 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.9 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 4.2 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 1.4 / 0.5 / 2.1 lb
- Family
- Solanaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-08-29
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-22
- First harvest
- 2026-06-27
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 15 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 30 seeds · 25 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $396.00 / $616.00
Companions
basil · carrot · onion
Avoid
fennel · potato · brassica