I grow in Earthboxes and live close the ocean. In the past I have not been able to grow Beefsteak tomatoes as it simple does not get hot...Read More enough where I live so production really low. That was until I tried growing New Big Dwarf. Last year was my first time trying any dwarf tomato. I also grew Rosella Purple Dwarf. I felt the New Big Dwarf flavor was a little better than average. For sure way better than anything you could get at the market. It is very juicy and a beautiful red. What was truly amazing though was the production. The plant only got about 4 feet tall but I got around 70 tomatoes from the thing. Amazing! Impossible! It's been around so long so people really love it. For me the Rosella Purple Dwarf was better. I love the black tomatoes but the production didn't come close to NBD. They were grown together in the Earthbox so equal sun, water and nutrition.
Very good flavor and large pink fruit. Will grow to 5’-6’ tall when grown in hydroponics. It grows upright much like a large broccoli...Read More plant and the fruit are hidden under the foliage. The fruit do not separate easily from the stem and are best cut with a knife or pruning sheers. It’s a keeper with resistance to TSWV
Very good flavor and large fruit for such a small plant. Plants can top out at up to four feet.
Variety history, from the...Read More Victory Seeds website:
"S. M. Isbell & Co. bred this variety by selecting from crosses of 'Ponderosa' with 'Dwarf Champion'. Their goal, which they accomplished, was to produce a variety with large, pink fruit on compact, rugose leaf plants. It was released it in their 1915 seed annual with the following words, "Isbell's New Big Dwarf is so distinct and so meritorious that we are proud to offer it to tomato lovers of America and the world. We earnestly hope everyone who receives our catalogue will plant this grand new sort in 1915."
Ninety years later, we believe that these words still ring true. It is a variety of merit. The large (one pound), delicious fruits develop on dwarf, short, bushy, two to four foot tall plants. It is also noted that they do well in pots."
I grow in Earthboxes and live close the ocean. In the past I have not been able to grow Beefsteak tomatoes as it simple does not get hot...Read More
Very good flavor and large pink fruit. Will grow to 5’-6’ tall when grown in hydroponics. It grows upright much like a large broccoli...Read More
Very good flavor and large fruit for such a small plant. Plants can top out at up to four feet.
Variety history, from the...Read More
Large beefsteak type tomatoes on 2 foot plants.