Finding the best tomato plants to produce large fruit takes some research.
There are so many wonderful and delicious tomatoes around.
Did you realize that tomatoes come in all shapes, sizes and colors? Until you really start delving into the different tomato species you may think that most tomatoes are red and round and are either large tomatoes or small tomatoes.
But that is not so.
Once you start enquiring as to what to grow you will be absolutely amazed at how many different shapes, sizes and colors there are.
Now don't laugh, I have actually seen a square tomato on a TV program! One grower who obviously thinks outside the square (Huh) was putting a square box around his tomatoes so that as they grew they shaped themselves into a square shape.
He believed there would be a market for square tomatoes in the restaurant industry.
He could well be right at that! Any rate, back to those big red tomatoes.
Most very big tomatoes grow on tomato vines, in other words the taller tomato plants and they are staked to stand straight.
These plants can grow to 8-10 feet although they are usually kept to within a good picking height.
They can be planted in the ground or in pots, but when grown in pots, the pot needs to be very big because they will have a big root system and they will also be drawing nutrients from a large area.
Some growers even use plastic garbage bins for these types of tomatoes.
These plants are called indeterminate plants.
Tomato plants that produce large and giant tomatoes.
In this grouping you will find tomatoes like 'Big Boy', 'Supersonic', 'Big Beef', and the Beefsteak varieties.
Here are the names of some super sized tomato that you might like to follow up: Dixie Golden Giant Heirloom Tomato, Ultimate Giant Heirloom tomato (can grow up to 9 inches across!), Giant Oxheart Heirloom tomato and Dinner Plate Heirloom tomato.
There are two other types of plants, the semi-determinate and the determinate, both of which are smaller plants and although they do have some large tomato varieties in these groupings most do grow on the large plants, as mentioned above.
It stands to reason that for a plant to produce a large tomato and take it to the ripening stage the plant will need constant care.
Care needs to be given to the watering and fertilizing as both of these are critical to good tomato production.
From the list above I am sure you will find one of the best tomato plants to produce the large delicious tomatoes that you desire.