Big, beautiful, tasty. Little cracking, and only when I couldn’t water regularly. Moderately prolific, pretty much stopped producing i...Read Moren the hot (90 degree) weather but started up again and still had blossoms when I took out the plant in early November. Plant was roughly 6 ft tall and disease free then. This was the potato leaf variety. I’m not growing it in 2022 just because I have very limited room and want to see if I can get a comparable tomato that sets more fruit per plant but for normal sized gardens great variety.
Ordered seeds for this heirloom online and have not been disappointed. Beautiful marvel striped tomato with a refreshing fruity taste. Ab...Read Moresolutely beautiful eye appeal when sliced. I eat this variety fresh off the vine sliced. Medium yielder and monitor moisture levels carefully as this variety is susceptible to cracking. Have had an infestation of aphids this year and my Hillbillys were all infected in two different grow areas, also had minor damage by Tomato Hornworms. They love the Hillbilly variety. Fruit takes a while to ripen but when they finally do you will see this variety is well worth the wait. My new favorite tomato and collecting seeds for a permanent spot in my vegetable seedbank. Beware of imitators.
Very, very vigourous plants but little if any fruit produced. What was produced was mealy and had no taste. Perhaps to hot in East Texas ...Read Morefor this variety. Sorry Hillbilly, I won't try you again.
I grew yellow hillbilly last year. It did really well. Nice healthy plants with a good amount of large fruit. I loved the taste too, just...Read More sliced and sprinkled with salt. I'm growing more from seed for this year, 2010.
Raised this plant from seed. Sure the plant grew fine, but it never flowered ONCE during my whole growing season here in zone 7a, much le...Read Moress any tomaotes.....very dissapointed with it. :(
Hillbilly has a place in my garden every year. It has a wonderful sweet flavor, striking appearance, and produces like crazy all season. ...Read MoreAnyone that I know that has ever tasted it loves it. It has no drawbacks other than the bugs like to eat it too.
It was beefy and a decent tomato for what it is, a red-striped yellow beefsteak. However, it takes so long to get a tomato to full ripene...Read Moress that you really need to either grow it several zones south of where I'm at (Northern Ohio, zone 5), or start it indoors in January. As it was, I only got about three tomatoes from this plant before the frost.
Big, beautiful, tasty. Little cracking, and only when I couldn’t water regularly. Moderately prolific, pretty much stopped producing i...Read More
Ordered seeds for this heirloom online and have not been disappointed. Beautiful marvel striped tomato with a refreshing fruity taste. Ab...Read More
Very, very vigourous plants but little if any fruit produced. What was produced was mealy and had no taste. Perhaps to hot in East Texas ...Read More
Very nice tomato. For me, it was very productive, and tasted very sweet and fruity. All my friends and family enjoyed them.
I grew yellow hillbilly last year. It did really well. Nice healthy plants with a good amount of large fruit. I loved the taste too, just...Read More
Raised this plant from seed. Sure the plant grew fine, but it never flowered ONCE during my whole growing season here in zone 7a, much le...Read More
Hillbilly has a place in my garden every year. It has a wonderful sweet flavor, striking appearance, and produces like crazy all season. ...Read More
It was beefy and a decent tomato for what it is, a red-striped yellow beefsteak. However, it takes so long to get a tomato to full ripene...Read More
Plants were very productive here and the fruit was attractive. Flavor average.
plants are very large and healthy
lots of fruit
I have had little success with bi-color beefsteaks in this climate, and this one is no exception. It rapidly succumbed to nematodes.