{"title":"Roma Tomatoes","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrow your best sauce yet with our diverse collection of Roma tomato seeds. These firm, meaty paste tomatoes—also known as plum tomatoes—are prized for their low moisture content and rich flavor, making them ideal for canning, roasting, and homemade sauces. Whether you're looking for determinate or indeterminate types, our open-pollinated, non-GMO Roma varieties deliver consistent performance and classic tomato taste.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"opalka","title":"Opalka Tomato","description":"\u003cp\u003eOpalka is a little-known Polish heirloom that is enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Vigorous, wispy vines produce excellent yields of large paste tomatoes.  Fruit have an unusual shape, which often catches the attention of visitors and double-blossomed flowers sometimes produce tomatoes with an almost cartoon-like appearance.  Besides being fun to look at, Opalka tomatoes are coreless, few-seeded, and larger than most other paste-types, making them a breeze to process.  Just take a thin slice off the end to remove the stem scar, halve the remainder and process as desired.  Very little work and very little waste.  Harvests begin approximately 85 days from transplanting.  Each packet contains a minimum of 50 seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Opalka","offers":[{"title":"Packet (50 Seeds)","offer_id":44071906509049,"sku":"TO-PA-002","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/4450\/products\/opalka-tomato-seeds-30929313824925.jpg?v=1700332094"},{"product_id":"amish-paste-tomato","title":"Amish Paste Tomato","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Amish Paste Tomato is an heirloom variety that was discovered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but is thought to have originated in Wisconsin around 1870.  Amish Paste's indeterminate plants produce good yields of 8- to 12-ounce, oblong or slightly tapered (fruit shape varies slightly from plant to plant), plum-type tomatoes with brilliant, red skins. Compared to a Roma, the Amish Paste tomato is juicier, with a mild, sweet flavor and delicious, meaty texture.  Despite being a paste tomato in name, its excellent eating qualities lend it to use as a both a canning tomato and a slicer, with an ideal juiciness for sandwiches— no soggy bread here!  If you can grow only one tomato, Amish Paste is an excellent choice.  In fact, Amish Paste was a featured variety in Dr. Carolyn Male's book \u003cem\u003e100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden\u003c\/em\u003e. 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and especially well-suited for short season and high-altitude gardens.  Determinate.  Harvests begin approximately 65 days from transplant.  Each packet contains a minimum of 50 seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grushovka Siberian","offers":[{"title":"Packet (50 Seeds)","offer_id":44071576764665,"sku":"TO-SL-029","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/4450\/products\/grushovka-siberian-plum-tomato-seeds-38279982448889.jpg?v=1700349725"},{"product_id":"san-marzano-heirloom-roma-tomato","title":"San Marzano Tomato","description":"\u003cp\u003eSan Marzano is a historic Italian heirloom traditionally grown in the volcanic soils surrounding Mount Vesuvius near Naples. Celebrated for generations as one of the finest Italian tomatoes for sauce, this elongated, thick-walled tomato has long been associated with classic Neapolitan cooking. After centuries of Italian cultivation, the beloved variety found its way into American gardens, becoming one of the parent lines used to develop the now-famous Roma tomato.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSan Marzano's tomatoes are slender and meaty with few seeds and balanced juice content, making them ideal for sauce, paste, and canning. Often cited as a low-acid tomato, San Marzano recorded one of the highest average pH readings (approximately 4.68) in a 1977 study comparing the acidity of common cultivars—making it one of the least acidic tomatoes in that particular trial.  Perhaps one of the many reasons why San Marzano remains one of the most popular heirloom paste tomatoes grown today. 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