Quantity
Around 35 seeds
Exposure
Sun
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Organic Italian 'Roma' Tomato
Tomato
FamilyNightshades
TypeVegetable
CycleAnnual
Quantity per packetAround 35 seeds
Product codeJAREC-0261
The Italian 'Roma' tomato is an essential classic variety, long appreciated for its productivity, reliability, and the excellent quality of its fruit for culinary processing. Its bright red, elongated, and regular tomatoes ripen in abundant clusters, giving the vegetable garden a tidy and generous appearance throughout the season. Their dense, low-juice, and rich flesh makes them an ideal candidate for homemade sauces, preserves, stews, and all preparations where concentration and texture are desired. On the palate, its mild flavor with a slight tartness also allows it to find its place in salads or daily cooked dishes. Its determinate habit makes plant management easy, although staking remains useful to support the heavy fruit load. Easy to grow in full sun in fertile, well-drained soil, it is suitable for both beginner gardeners and home cooking enthusiasts. Its flowering attracts some pollinators, while its generous fruiting promises good harvests for canning or cooking fresh from the vine. Simple, efficient, and deeply useful, the 'Roma' remains a benchmark Italian tomato for gourmet vegetable gardens.
Sowing guide
From packetto germination.
Sowing periodMarch to April
Sowing depth0.5 cm (1/4 in)
Germination temperature22 to 28 °C (72 to 82 °F)
Germination time5 to 10 days
Soil and care
The rightconditions.
Exposure
Sun
Soil
Rich, fertile, and well-drained
Watering
Regular
Container growing
A controlledenvironment.
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Bloom and dimensions
The completeprofile.
Bloom periodJune to August
Harvest75 to 80 days after transplant
Garden associations
What to plantwith it.
Good companionsBasil, garlic, onion, pepper
Avoid planting withFennel, potato
Sauces, preserves, stews, salads, cooking
