How to Grow Beefsteak Tomatoes

Watch this video before growing beefsteak tomatoes!!!
In this video, I teach you how to grow huge, juicy beefsteak tomatoes in your garden. I'll walk you through the essentials including watering, fertilizing, light requirements, and spacing. Although I don't claim to be an expert, I've had quite a bit of success with my tomatoes in my front yard garden and I want to share my experience with other growers out there wanting to master the art and science of tomato growing. I made this video for both beginner and advanced growers, so no matter what your skill level, I hope you find it useful.
CHECK THESE OUT:
Pruning NOT Necessary:
• *PROOF* Pruning Beefst...
How to Grow Lettuce Indoors:
• How to Grow Lettuce Fr...

[@Selfsufficientme]

Great stuff Lucas those are top looking toms! 👍🙂

[@masfarmjk8855]

How to have bigest tomato?

[@Tristanks]

​@@masfarmjk8855Bro got left hanging...for 2 years

[@cory7730]

First tomato video and I've got two beefsteaks and I'm a 48 yr old noob. Lots of knowledge gained from a true obsessive in this field. As a general obsessive I do appreciate your gifts. I need to learn more about caging and pruning inside of potted tomato plants. So I'll look further. Thanks Lucas. Great knowledge sharing!

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Thanks Cory! This season should be filled with tomato growing vids. As far as pruning goes, you can check out this vid: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5e9ap2cp7yWibs. Also check out my new guide on how to grow tomatoes from start to finish. Good luck!

[@SnappingTurtle444]

@@lucasgrowsbestyt Lucas my stems are curling over and lightening in hue (color) - are they locked out. Could I send you a pic?

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

@@SnappingTurtle444Sure, send a photo of them to [e-mail]!

[@sammbwitched]

Thank u for the real and understandable informations. I just needed guidance and I relate to how u explain it. Thanks again.

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

You’re welcome, glad you found it useful!

[@BeefandEggs]

Very well explained instructions. In the past I’ve planted beef steaks but results were medium sized tomatoes and not that many. I will try your method. Btw 3 beefsteaks here will set you back about 12 dollars

[@d.t.4523]

This year I sold all but 2 of my beefsteak plants! One suggestion for you. Keep the magnesium level up, to keep the calcium working in the plants. I add epsom salt to my plants every time I water them. Try about 1 tablespoon per gallon of water. Good luck to you! 👍

[@MsTwiththeTea1980]

Thank you for the great tip👍🏾

[@JOJO-gl6tx]

I bought an easy grow beefsteak tomato kit and they say to plant all the seeds into the tiny pot and let it all grow in the small pot. I figured that didn't sound right so I separated each seedling into their own planters now I've got a bunch of 5 foot plants and no room on my apartment balcony. O.O I've been putting banana peels and egg shells in my soil. Banana peels work really good.

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Yeah, those kits and gimmicky garden products can be misleading. You made the right move. Balcony growing is tricky I think but sounds like your having some success which is awesome! I'll have to try banana peels, thinking they'll have good potassium in them.

[@bobsiddoway]

Zone 5b here, too!!! Such a short season.

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Nice, whereabouts?

[@MOG007]

Great video and impressive crop of beefsteak tomatoes! I am obsessed with tomatoes and made a video myself of a plant that was a huge producer of beautiful med sized tomatoes. I appreciate all that you've learned and shared here!

[@yannip2083]

Love all your tomato and pepper videos, Lucas, THE BEST! Thank you so much!

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

That means so much, thanks Yanni and I'm glad you enjoy the vids!

[@AB-bv8xt]

Love those toasted 🍅 sandwiches! Your gardens look great!!

[@debbieexcell5088]

Thanks for explaining how to fertilize. I couldn't really understand the NPK ratio before. ❤️

[@mrstukutela5126]

I am so glad that I have found this site. It gives me all the tips that I need to grow my first EVER crop of beefsteak tomatoes. Tomatoes are insanely expensive here at the moment. I live in South Africa and January is supposed to be the best time to grow tomatoes now.

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Right on! Lots more beefsteak growing videos (hopefully) to be posted this season, so stick around.

[@SouthernCaliforniaGardening]

excellent info lucas, ur plants r lookin beautiful❤️

[@jessicalavoe3388]

Thank you for the great explanation! Gonna try beefsteak tomatoes this year

[@honeybee2356]

Happy growing! Me too!💚🍃🍅

[@johnwhittaker3673]

Really helpful. thanks

[@marysgarden7795]

Watching from Philippines❤️

[@sreykimsear]

Thanks Lucas...very informative

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Glad you enjoyed, Kim!

[@brandonlamontcooper8141]

Awesome.. thanks for your wisdom..

[@christophersmith7892]

Gonna try your method thanks for sharing

[@Rachel-hg1gn]

Thank you! Helpful!

[@texas.latina89]

Great video very informative thank u 💚💚💚

[@robertballejo6583]

First time planting this year. I have a couple of sprouts from the seeds. Thanks for the tips.

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Cool! Beefsteaks are so fun to grow, especially when you get it right. Check out some of my other vids to help you along 😀

[@sharmakitchen146]

Beautiful garden 🌹

[@milferalvaro1747]

I've grown and finally harvested small tomatoes, but they're not PATHETIC, they're sweet and so organic and I'm proud of it..my SMALL tomatoes are AWESOME!!!

[@honeybee2356]

How sweet!🍅💚🍃

[@kaylawelch790]

😂

[@jameszhang1109]

Small beefsteak is still beefsteak

[@PopleBackyardFarm]

sound great

[@itsselinbilgin]

Thank you so much!

[@waltobringer2928]

Thank you!

[@valeriesanchez3074]

Loooove beefsteaks

[@taunaadams3304]

Beautiful

[@kitchenwithshafkat573]

Beautiful 😊😊😊

[@denizersoy6634]

Beautifull Lucas 👍👍👍

[@user-xm7dt3ec1o]

とても参考になります。

[@organixgirl]

My very first intro to tomato's was a SOS seed bank I bought from ebay lol. It just said beefsteak so I grew it and I got the biggest tomato I've ever seen obviously now I grew larger but it amazed me and now I have over 300 varieties lol

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Wow! Sounds like you've been bitten by the tomato bug! Haha.

[@margaritamedina5009]

Thank you !!!!

[@damarisdemarroquin439]

Qué bendicion cosechar tu propia comida

[@eliasrifka1704]

Chicken manure is your nutrition as I use it yearly in both autumn and spring. I get that free from my friend.I prune his garden in our village,Beit Chabab,Lebanon. I get a full burst of Omar's Lebanese tomato , a huge tomato at least a kg and GR drip irrigation is great. Ask for Omar's Lebanese tomato;you'll LOVE its products.

[@nadiahasan7397]

Nice

[@bobbijobeam5895]

I was just want you to show me how to literally plant them in the ground when you buy them already planted and with a few leaves

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Here is a video where I planted my tomatoes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXizaXt9hdZqp8U

[@armandosermeno9725]

Excelentes 😱😱😱😱🍅🌶🍆🥒

[@Death2Weebs]

Longlive the BeefSteak

[@mickey5779]

A good organic soil is best, however; there's nothing wrong with the occasional boost of a water soluble supplement if necessary. This is contrary to most commercial hot houses which pump their tomatoes with a synthetic fertilizer that can actually be tasted in the fruit. There's nothing like fresh garden grown tomatoes! 🍅

[@dianawolf894]

The Beefsteak tomato is the tomato one might see at a State Fair. Usually that huge tomato at the State Fair was the only tomato on the plant.

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Hi Diana, you are correct, that is a beefsteak (specifically a giant beefsteak). The tomatoes in this video are also beefsteaks, just not a giant variety. Thanks for watching :)

[@angelesramirez354]

Congratulations.

[@sherrya6922]

Lovely tomatoes I've got one it's so so tall and full its gonna fall gotta figure out how to stake the plant

[@ashleyhyunwoo3609]

❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[@joshjimenez3411]

What kind of spacing is needed for potting these? I’m getting some yellow leaves. We did have a cold week last week randomly…

[@thegoat2959]

Hey Lucas I recently bought a beefsteak tomato plant. How often should I be watering it? It’s Almost August and where I live and our high is around 80-86 degrees Fahrenheit. Thanks.

[@jeil5676]

Where do you get those nice cages and how much?

[@latifahamid5614]

In our country winter starts from November and ends in March. I tried to germinate this kind of tomato using coco peat with vermi compost.. After germination seedlings fall down and died. Seedlings were very thin than normal tomato. So I want to know how you are germinating from seed.

[@harrymorgan4460]

i love beafs

[@Mrjboomseedco]

You can trellis toms look into build a soil in colorado build a soil family farms they trellis tons and cucumbers all the way up a rope and back down then string them out I’ve seen 40’ long plants

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

I'm string trellising my tomatoes this year! Check out my recent vids 😂

[@harrymorgan4460]

also this music is crazy bro

[@yannip2083]

You mentioned you are in Zone 5B. What happens to your tomato plants when the snow comes back?

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

They become diseased well before that... I discard them in October before we get snow. Tomato plants will not survive snow.

[@yannip2083]

@@lucasgrowsbestyt So, all your tomato plants (including your outstanding Sweet 100 cherry tomato plants) are planted new every new Spring time?

[@dankmemes3542]

@@yannip2083 I dunno about op, but that’s what I do every year. No point in trying to get stuff to live through the winter!

[@collettefoy]

This is my first year of growing beef steak tomatoes that my mom sent me so I can grow in pots on my patio or in the ground. My ? Is how do I place the tomato cages over my plants?

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Hi Colette, personally I recommend growing tomatoes in the ground, but certain varieties can work in pots. There are so many good methods to support tomatoes, check out my video "Raise the Stakes"!

[@organixgirl]

Make sure you have a large pot or a large grow bag look on Amazon the grow bags do really well if you buy a cage it'll fit in that. I would at least do 10-15 gallon and put a water tray underneath and fertilize as needed.

[@honeybee2356]

They look amazing! Isn't hybrid gmo? I'm doing this in my balcony🙏😊🍃

[@jeil5676]

No hybrid is not gmo. Its a first generation cross of 2 homogenous strains. So the seeds of a hybrid will not carry the traits of its parent.

[@honeybee2356]

@@jeil5676 Thank you!

[@Boatflipit]

@@honeybee2356 gmos are not bad for you btw don’t drink the koolaid

[@daniel4647]

All plants and animals that have been domesticated are technically GMO if we're counting selective breeding. We've been doing this since the dawn of argicultur, for thousands of years, so by that definition non GMO food is pretty much only the stuff you find in a forest and not even all of that. GMO is one if those fad words that have no meaning anymore, like organic and chemical. All living things are organic no matter how they're grown, and everything that exists that's not a wave is chemical. Originally these words where attached to concepts with meaning, but they've been twisted for advertising purposes.

[@Aziz-wl1xf]

@@daniel4647 There is a huge difference between selective breeding and GMO. With selective breeding, you are making the genes already present in the population more prominent/prevalent. Those genes naturally evolved through passage of time. With GMO on the other hand, you are granularly modifying or adding genes as a human, with unknown consequences to the organism as a whole. Genes and their interactions are incredibly complex and as humans we are nowhere near able to predict or guarantee all side effects of any given modification.

[@harrymorgan4460]

thanks for the advice. you look funny

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Why do I look funny? lol

[@Melody-lc6dt]

I'm also zone 5! where are you from? I'm in Northern IL. 😊

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Ontario, Canada! How is it over there in Illinois? 😀

[@Melody-lc6dt]

@@lucasgrowsbestyt it's false spring right now. It'll get cold again for sure. Started a few seeds though!

[@feiwang1095]

MG is not so bad. There tons of antibiotic in manure too. Antibiotic kills fungus and bacteria which is bad for the soil.

[@drrmagneto4176]

CAN YOU SHARE WHERE TO BUY THE SEEDS

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

I get mine from a local supermarket, garden centre, or online orders.

[@rose-qo3iy]

excellent video thank you but I found it hard to listen because of the music

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@TLatha-ju3gd]

Hi. U. R. Gradan is. Beautiful

[@TheEverydayHomemaker]

Can I grow the beef steak tomatoes in a bucket?

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Hi Tricia, you can although I don't have much experience with container beefsteaks. I have seen it done successfully but you will have to be sure to keep watering it as the pots will dry out quickly. If possible, I recommend growing tomatoes in the ground.

[@gabec2494]

I didn't have much luck doing so last season, despite a good watering schedule and fertilizing. This year, I expanded my ground garden and they are flourishing. Out of 65 plants (7 different varieties) I harvest around 60-80 lbs a week.

[@gianna9034]

@@lucasgrowsbestyt i’m growing my tomato’s in a planter and temperatures get up to 103 where i’m living. how often do you think i should water them? i’ve been watering them in the mornings but it’s leaves are yellowing and wilting. i’m not sure if i’m overwatering or underwatering.

[@maconboone1732]

If your in high school and want a garden take a horticulture class

[@bubbacrabb]

Don't beat yourself up to bad on the total organic thing. I try my best but when the Japanese beetles start eating all my garden 7 dust is the only thing I have used to control it. I don't like using it but all the hippy stuff has failed. So I do what I can to still have a harvest.

[@angelmarmolejo6111]

So no pruning on these? Correct

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

The plant on the front right corner was completely unpruned. Check out my tomato growing playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLBMgEHe5hSgi1SSvj5zaVLP8b13NRb2IB

[@harrymorgan4460]

lucas

[@marcmadonna725]

The secret to giant tomatoes is to sucker the plants. I'd rather have 25 softball sized fruits than 100 golf ball sized fruits. And don't be afraid to cut off several flowers and use them to pollinate your other plants flowers. They need air space to grow giant fruits

[@lucasgrowsbestyt]

Have you seen my video 'Proof You Don't Need to Prune Beefsteaks'? Some of my biggest tomatoes have grown on unpruned plants.

[@matthewkheyfets1309]

@@lucasgrowsbestyt yeah there isn't really a need to prune tomato plants. The only reason to prune is either preference or you have limited space but want to try varieties. However, generally speaking if you provide all the nutrients, enough sun, and water the plants daily, you should be fine. I believe that if a Tomato plant puts out 100 flowers in a span of 2 weeks, then that means the plant has the genetic potential for at least 70-90 flowers to pollinate and produce fruit. If they don't, then that means the environment got too cold or too hot OR there is something we ask Gardners didn't provide in terms of water, nutrients, or sun light to get them all to pollinate and then fruit set. I don't think a plant really goes to make 100 flowers only to set like 15 of them versus flowering 100 of them and setting as many as it can.

[@yeahrightbear8883]

Damn. All that time, money, and work, you could have just bought some tomatoes and saved like 100 bucks.

[@soniakanene5545]

0p

[@sriya_priya_twins_offical628]

Hi bro

[@fredbrinker1820]

kill the music it makes it very hard to hear and understand what you are saying

[@ThicketThunder]

Horse cow amd chicken manure....awesome for plants

[@danielrabalais8579]

Shame shame....lol you lost me when you said Miracle-Gro...

[@Pilotpaulie]

Back off on the background music man. Distracting.

[@kevmurray6952]

Dislike purely based on KZbin ad algorithm, I found the ad repetitive and therefore offensive should be able complain or report in a simple click you can't so til then I dislike any vid with an adnot your fault

[@alejandramacias1318]

Awesome video thanks

[@Pamela_Lang]

great video but lost me at "miracle grow" ❤

[@raymcdonald731]

So what do you use?