Tomato 'Bloody Butcher'

I tried this variety for the first time this summer. I live on the Pacific coast where we traditionally have cool summers and very warm...Read More Autumns. We had one of the coolest, foggiest summers is recent history. I had ten different tomato varieties including three from the Early Girl strain. None but this one did well. I was completely surprised since I'd never heard of it before and none of the other local gardeners had either. Small fruits, sometimes a bit funny shaped, hard to pull off the vine and the plant started suffering from "late blight" in August. But it started producing by the end of June and is still producing a few small fruit each week on October 19th. Tasty fruit. A little tough. Plant grows quite tall. I'll definitely try again next year as a hedge against another cool, foggy summer.

I live in the Bellevue/Seattle area.
We simply loved "Bloody Butcher". It is more like a very large cherry tomato with golf-ba...Read Morell sized tomatoes with anywhere from 3 to 6 tomatoes on each stem, with a sprinkling of 1-2 to a stem.

It has a rich, sweet heirloom flavor. It's sheer number of tomatoes make up for it's smaller size. Has a thin skin that never toughens, and has produced fruit earlier than of any tomatoes here in the Northwest--and we had the coldest Spring in history here this year.

Maybe it does need a cooler spring and more water. (?)
Everyone who has tasted it here said it was simply delicious.

Mitzia

I started this from seed and the plants grew well for the most part, getting about 6 feet tall. We had a very wet spring here in Zone 7 a...Read Morend I think that set them back a little; I know it killed 4 of my Roma tomatoes. The fruit is a dark pinkish red, and on the small side. The average size for me was about the size of a small peach. I found the flavor only ordinary, which is sad because I had such high hopes for this tomato.

I got a lot of delicious fruit off of this plant. Plenty for my family and I gave a bunch away.

Small, green-shouldered flavorful tomatoes on a potato-leafed vine. Early to produce and gave out early.

I purchased a strong plant from a reliable local grower this spring and so far I'm disappointed.

It was the first plant t...Read Moreo produce blossoms, but none of the blossoms have produced a tomato.
Many of the plants I started from seed were much smaller than the Bloody Butcher I purchased and they are now setting fruit.
My Bloody Butcher plant continues to bloom without setting fruit.

I have 3 native bee blocks and a lot of bee activity so I don't understand why I'm not getting fruit on this plant. It's growing in an earthbox, same as my other tomato plants.

So far, I'm not impressed. First to bloom doesn't mean much if it doesn't produce tomatoes.

I am going to try these for the first time this year. I will post an update after I get my first ripe tomato!

This is my first year to grow Bloody Butcher. It is over 7 feet tall already and is loaded with fruit. I can't wait for the first ripe to...Read Moremato to check the taste. So far i'm very pleased with the way it has preformed. The ad said it was early ... it was the first to set fruit of the 35 varieties i'm growing. If it has a nice flavor it will be a staple in my garden. The leaves don't appear to be a true potato leaf, but i'm new to growing these varieties ...

Hope I am reviewing the same tomato that is described here. I got my seed from Burpee. The envelope is labeled "Bloody Butcher". I gre...Read Morew three plants last year. Loved the fruit. Very "tomato" in flavor.

My brother visited, said it was the best-tasting tomato he had ever sampled. HOWEVER, I have looked all over the internet at pictures of Bloody Butcher Tomatoes, and what I grew looked nothing like any photo I have found described as Bloody Butcher.

The ones my plants produced were taller than they were wide, sort of like a Roma, but not as thin compared to width. They were probably about 4-5 oz, where all the pictures I find of them show a small beefsteak. No way mine are the same tomato. I had three plants that produced all summer, and the output never changed.

Whatever they are, I will grow them again this year, and in the future. I will also buy some more "Bloody Butcher" seed from another source to compare.

Sounds like I will prefer what I have, and better save seed for the future.

I grew this for 2 years and was unimpressed. Average tomato with average taste. It got deleted from my garden for that reason.

This is my third year growing Bloody Butcher. I pick the first ripe ones about the 10th of July. Though small they taste like a real to...Read Moremato, something I'm really starved for after the long winter here in Vermont. I bought the seed out of a left over bin initially for a quarter without knowing anything about it. The plants stay pretty small and I've grown them in pots successfully as well as in the ground.

Good tasting early tomato for me. Not a Brandywine, but certainly better than Early Girl, Alaska, Oregon Spring or Canabec Super.

small but great tasting tomato when fully ripe. early to mature fruit. the plant seems to resist disease as well as most hybrids.potato l...Read Moreeaf variety. i will grow every year as it does well in zone 7 of south carolina.

Fairly good tasting and productive early that I used to grow occasionally.

Grew this plant a couple years ago and found it to be very tasty. Heirloom. I am growing three plants this year and am waiting for them t...Read Moreo turn red. They are tennis ball size and one of my favorites. We live and grow these 150' from the ocean.

Touted as being early and tasty. It is neither early enough nor tasty enough to keep growing it. I dropped it from my list after the thre...Read Moree year test period.