Tomato Roma Organic
Tomato Roma Organic. The king of Italian tomatoes, most commonly used for sauces and canning, but equally delicious in summer salads. It is the ultimate mid season Tomato, perfect flavour, perfect pear shaped 3″ fruits, all beautifully red. Plants grow on vigorous determinate vines producing a heavy mid-season crop. Fusarium and Verticilium resistant.
Cultivation Advice Tomato Roma Organic
- Sow in spring 1/16 inch deep.
- Germination takes around 6-14 days at 65-75F.
- Transplant the seedlings when large enough to handle into 3 inch pots.
- Grow on under cooler conditions and when about 8 inches tall,
- either plant in their growing position in the greenhouse
- or gradually acclimatise them to outdoor conditions
- and plant out 18 inches apart in a warm and sunny spot in moist, fertile well drained soil and keep watered.
- Provide support and tie in regularly.
- Â Remove side shoots and restrict the plant to one main stem.
- In late summer remove the growing tip to hasten ripening.
