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The San Marzano Red Plum is an Italian heirloom tomato famous for it’s use in traditional Italian dishes. Its dry flesh and low acid content help makes its flavor one of the finest tomatoes for sauces, pastes and canning.
[80 days] This tall, indeterminate, heirloom tomato produces a copious amount of medium-sized, oblong, Roma-style fruits whose flavor is almost legendary. Although great for canning and drying, San Marzanos are unsurpassable in sauces and pastes and are thought by some to make the world's finest sauce. An early ripening tomato, the San Marzano produces well over a long season and is disease resistant. The plants reach to about 6’ tall.
How do you grow San Marzano tomatoes from seed? Sow your San Marzano seeds into a bucket with nutrient-rich, moist soil. Place one of your seeds into the soil and pour some water in so the soil is moist but not waterlogged. San Marzano tomato seeds take 7-14 days to complete the germination cycle and begin to sprout.
How big are San Marzano plum tomatoes? San Marzano is oval-shaped plum tomatoes that range in sizes from 2 to 4 inches big.
Grow your own Pizza sauce! San Marzano makes excellent tomatoes for pizza sauces here at Growseed it is the only tomato we grow for our pizza sauce. Rich sweet Italian sauce tomatoes perfect for sauces of all kinds.
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The San Marzano Red Plum is an Italian heirloom tomato famous for it’s use in traditional Italian dishes. Its dry flesh and low acid content help makes its flavor one of the finest tomatoes for sauces, pastes and canning.