San Marzano Determinate Tomato Seeds

San Marzano Determinate Tomato Seeds | Italian Heirloom Tomato for Sauce & Paste
Solanum lycopersicum
Listing is for 1 packet of 15 seeds

Grow your own delicious San Marzano tomatoes perfect for making sauce or paste. San Marzano is a classic determinate variety prized by chefs and gardeners for its rich, sweet flavor and low acidity. San Marzano tomatoes are famous for making authentic pasta sauces, salsas, and roasted tomato dishes thanks to their thick, meaty flesh and few seeds. Unlike the traditional indeterminate type, this determinate strain stays compact, making it perfect for small gardens, raised beds, and container growing. Plants reach about 3–4 feet tall and produce heavy clusters of elongated, deep red tomatoes that ripen all at once — ideal for canning or sauce-making. For best results, grow in full sun, provide consistent moisture, and support the plants with a cage or trellis. Expect an abundant harvest of gourmet-quality tomatoes in about 75–80 days from transplanting.

TOMATO CHARACTERISTICS
Indeterminate

Color: Red

Flavor profile: Savory

Average fruit size: plum, average is 4oz

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: 75 days from transplanting into the garden