West Virginia Sweet Meat Tomato

(Solanum lycopersicum) 

2025 farm favorite for late season beefy beefsteaks.  These need to be trellised and supported since the fruit can grow between 1 and 2 pounds on average.  Our largest West Virginia Sweet Meat in 2025 was just shy of 1.5 pounds.  Rumor has it they can exceed 3 pounds in the right growing conditions.  Northeastern Arizona is a bit too dry and hot, so we will be happy with our 1 to 2 pound fruits.

The fruit is sweet with a nice tomato flavor and is great canned, sliced or in salads.  There are minimal seeds, so all seed savers need to make sure to get as many seeds as possible before processing the fruit.  

The history as noted by Tatiana's Tomatobase: "Seeds originally came from Patty Brown of Ohio. Patty's mother, who lives in West Virginia, bought a plant at an Amish nursery at Hidden Valley, Marsdale, PA, and Patty saved seeds from the fruits. Patty called it 'Sweet Meat' and shared the seeds with her gardening friends via Tomatoville and Garden Web in the early 2000s. 'West Virginia' was added to the name later to indicate the origin. (It was also) First introduced to SSE by Neil Lockhart of Oblong, Illinois in the 2008 Yearbook."

0.2 grams