Rosso Sicilian Italian Tomato Seeds

Rosso Sicilian Heirloom Tomato Seeds – Italian Ribbed Tomato for Sauce & Roasting
Solanum lycopersicum
Listing is for 1 packet of 15 seeds

Bring a taste of old-world Italy to your garden with the Rosso Sicilian heirloom tomato — a striking, deeply ribbed variety known for its rich flavor, meaty texture, and beautiful shape. Originating from the warm Mediterranean climate of Sicily, this tomato is as flavorful as it is eye-catching. Rosso Sicilian produces medium to large, heavily lobed red fruits with thick walls and very few seeds — making it an excellent choice for sauces, roasting, stuffing, or sun-drying. Its flesh is dense and flavorful, with a balanced sweetness that holds up well when cooked. Gardeners love this variety for more than its looks — the plants are vigorous, heat-tolerant, and high-yielding, performing especially well in warm climates. The compact, bushy vines also make it a great choice for raised beds or smaller gardens.

TOMATO CHARACTERISTICS

Determinate

Color: Red

Flavor profile: savory

Average fruit size: 6 oz

Height/Fertilizing: height can vary as it depends on your growing conditions and care. I have a fertilizing regimen which definitely helps achieve this kind of growth but is not necessary. Adding small doses of an organic fertilizer every week has really helped me take my tomato growing to another level. Synthetic fertilizers can burn or damage plants if used too often. Therefore, I recommend organic fertilizers because they wont damage plants when used often. However, do what suits your garden and the products you like to use. 

This is my current fertilizing regimen: I start by fertilizing weekly with 1/8 cup of Espoma Tomato tone sprinkled at the base of each plant. Once the plants start to bloom, I start alternating the weeks. One week with the Espoma Tomato Tone and then the next week with this recipe: mix 1 cup of Azomite dust and 1/4 cup of Fox Farms Tiger Bloom liquid into a 5 gallon bucket of water and pour some at the base of each plant. 

PLANTING
Germination: 7-14 days. To speed up germination I recommend using a heat mat. 

Seed Sowing Depth: 1/8” deep 

Sowing: I highly recommend to start in pots in doors with a heat mat 6-8 weeks before your last frost date. If you gardening in Florida, we kind of have two opportunities to grow tomatoes per year. You can start them in doors around July 1st and transplant into the garden end of September for fall/winter harvest. Or you can start from seed in doors 6-8 weeks from your last frost date for spring harvest. 

Days to maturity: 70-80 days from transplanting into the garden