What it is
Roma / Paste Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is in the Solanaceae (Nightshade) family. Meaty, low-moisture fruit that ripens in a concentrated window - the canning and sauce tomato.
How to grow it
It wants full sun, water it even, and give it rich soil. Target a soil pH around 6.2-6.8. Space plants about 24 in apart. Expect roughly 70-80. Warm-season annual.
How it's used
Roma / Paste Tomato is used: sauce, canning, drying.
🔎 How to identify it
- Compound leaves
- Yellow flowers
- Egg-shaped dense fruit
Edibility
PartsRipe fruit
UsesSauce, canning, drying
CautionWatch for blossom-end rot from uneven water.
🌤 Before you plant: check the live 7-day garden weather to time it right for frost and heat.
Part of the free Texas Roots plant database, compiled by Jordan Polasek from his greenhouse in El Campo, Texas. Free to read and share. If it helped, the best thanks is to grow something.