Big Boy tomato
Solanum lycopersicum 'Big Boy'
SunNeeds full sun (6+ hours)
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
Size3 to 6 feet tall2 to 3 feet wide
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Habit
- Ascending
- Bloom season
- Summer, autumn
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay
Garden uses
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Notes
'Big Boy' tomato (Solanum lycopersicum 'Big Boy') is a vegetable for food gardens and containers. It is typically grown as an annual. It is tender to cold, and the first hard frost will kill it. This plant likes full sun and average to moist, sandy, loamy, or clay soil. It is a slicer type with an indeterminate habit, so the vines keep growing and need a tall stake or cage. Bees visit the flowers.
Pairs well with Scarlet runner, Rosemary, and Garden strawberry.