Martino's Roma Tomato
Price: $3.45
SKU: 3400442175-90 days, determinate - An italian heirloom roma tomato with rugose dark green foliage on compact (3 to 4 foot tall) plants. Absolutely loaded with abundant yields of 3 ounce pear-shaped fruit, meaty with excellent taste for sauce and paste uses. First obtained in the early 1990s by a Seed Savers Exchange member from an 87 year old in New York State who obtained them from a friend who brought the seeds from Italy many years before that.
Fruit Color: Red
Harvest Timing: Main Crop / Mid-Season
Growth Habit: Determinate
Full light and cooler temps (60° to 70°) will help to prevent the seedlings from becoming too leggy. If plants become rootbound before you can safely set them into the ground, transplant them into larger pots.
Harden off plants before planting outside. Young plants are very susceptible to frost and sunburn damage. Avoid too much nitrogen. Water evenly but not in excess.
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Customer Reviews:
By Gio (North county San Diego) on April 14, 2024
I've grown Roma VF and San Marzano. Both of these produce well but have issues with blossom end rot even though I drip irrigate. Not a lot but enough to aggravate. I don't get any BER, I mean none with this variety albeit slightly smaller fruit which is ok because they slip into my jars easily. The Martinos get about 3-feet tall, very bushy with tons of tomatoes . I find the Roma VF very dry and somewhat hollow at times and the San Marzanos while producing big heavy beautiful fruit need to be pruned to maintain height and produce those bigger fruits. Otherwise they would grow into gigantic sprawling plants with many smaller tomatoes. If I could find an indeterminate San Marzano, I might reconsider it.
