Paste tomatoes have a meaty texture and concentrated taste. They’re sometimes called “sauce,” “pear,” “plum,” “saladette,” “Roma,” and “Italian.”
Use paste tomatoes for cooking sauces, juicing, drying, or consuming contemporary sliced in salads or at the facet.
Paste tomatoes are available in a wide range sizes—from an inch or two lengthy to very large 2-pound culmination. They may be able to be pear-shaped, heart-shaped (referred to as “oxheart”), elongated—like a banana pepper, or huge and lumpy. What paste tomatoes have in not unusual is that they’re meaty and feature fewer seeds and not more juice than different tomatoes.
Develop paste tomatoes similar to different tomatoes: plant in complete solar; upload numerous compost to the planting mattress; set transplants out when the soil has warmed to no less than 60°F; give protection to younger crops from cool nights; feed crops with fish emulsion or kelp meal each 10 days or so.
The place the season is brief or cool, develop determinate sorts; the place the season is lengthy, develop indeterminate vining sorts.
Listed below are a number of paste tomatoes that carry out smartly in house gardens:
- Amish Paste: open-pollinated; indeterminate; heart-shaped purple, about 8 oz.; 82 days to adulthood.
- Black Plum: open-pollinated; indeterminate; plum-shaped mahogany, 2-3 inches lengthy; 75-80 days to adulthood.
- Heidi: open-pollinated; indeterminate; purple, spherical to heart-shaped; 75-80 days to adulthood.
- Italian Gold: hybrid; determinate; golden, plum-shaped; 70 days to adulthood.
- L. a. Roma Rossa: hybrid; determinate; purple, pear-shaped to 4 inches; 78 days to adulthood.
- Martino’s Roma: open-pollinated; determinate; purple, pear-shaped, 2 oz.; 75-80 days to adulthood.
- Myona: open-pollinated; indeterminate; purple, pepper-shaped to 4 inches lengthy; 80-95 days to adulthood.
- Opalka: open-pollinated; indeterminate; red-orange, pepper-shaped; 75-85 days to adulthood.
- Orange Banana: open-pollinated; indeterminate; orange, banana formed to three inches lengthy; 85 days to adulthood.
- Plum Dandy: hybrid; determinate; purple, plum-shaped to six oz.; 75-80 days to adulthood.
- Plum Lemon: open-pollinated; indeterminate; yellow, lemon-shaped; 81 days to adulthood.
- Powers Heirloom: open-pollinated; indeterminate; yellow, oblong-shaped, 85 days to adulthood.
- Ropreco Paste: open-pollinated; indeterminate; open-pollinated; determinate; purple, pear-shaped to three inches lengthy: 70 days to adulthood.
- Rocky: open-pollinated; indeterminate; purple, oxheart to plum form to six inches lengthy; 95-105 days to adulthood.
- Roma: open-pollinated; determinate; purple, pear-shaped to three inches lengthy; 80-85 days to adulthood.
- Russian 117: open-pollinated; indeterminate; purple, oxheart formed to two kilos; 80-90 days to adulthood.
- San Marzano: open-pollinated; indeterminate; purple, pear-shaped to three inches lengthy; 80 days to adulthood.
- San Remo Paste: hybrid; indeterminate; purple, oblong-shaped to five inches lengthy; 76 days to adulthood.
- Verna Orange: open-pollinated; indeterminate; orange, oxheart-shaped to at least one pound; 84 days to adulthood.
- Viva Italia: hybrid; determinate; purple, pear-shaped; 80 days to adulthood.
- Yellow Bell Paste: open-pollinated; indeterminate; yellow, lengthy pear-shaped; 60 days to adulthood.
