Roma Italian paste tomato

Description

A widely grown and dependable heritage paste tomato, Roma is valued for its uniform, elongated fruits and excellent cooking qualities. Producing heavy crops of firm, deep red tomatoes, it is a reliable choice for sauces, bottling and drying.

With fewer seeds and a good balance of flesh to juice, Roma performs consistently both in the garden and the kitchen.

Key characteristics

• Classic heritage paste tomato

• Oval to plum-shaped fruits with firm flesh

• Good balance of flesh and juice

• Reliable and productive variety

• Ideal for sauces, passata and preserving

Growing information

• Determinate to semi-determinate variety

• Sow under cover from early spring

• Suitable for greenhouse or warm outdoor growing

• Requires staking or light support

• Harvest from mid to late summer

In the kitchen

A versatile kitchen tomato, Roma cooks down well into thick sauces and is equally suitable for roasting, drying or preserving whole.

• • • JandL unique packaging
    • Hints and tips for sucessful germination and growing
    • Non treated Non GMO seeds
    • Fully tested and controlled for germination and purity
    • Approximately 20 seeds per packet