San Marzano Tomatoe

[ninnymary]

Oh you guys are really getting me excited now! Can't wait. Hoodat, I picked the best plant and it was the one without the tag! It was in the middle of all the San Marzanos so I'm pretty sure it's one. When I got home, I wished I had pulled a tag from one of the other ones. Now, I won't know if it's 1 or 2.

Mary

 

[hoodat]

The taste of 1 and 2 is the same. The 1 is just longer and thinner.

 

[HotPepperQueen]

Outstanding tomato for salsa and sauces. I found it takes only half the time of my other sauce tomatos to get a nice thick paste. In blind taste tests of tomato sauces San Marzano almost always comes out the winner. It is all but impossible to find real canned San Marzano tomatos at anything but gourmet stores. Look carefully at the ones in your store and you will probably find canned tomatos labeled San Marzano but they are most often followed by the word "type". I guess any paste tomato is a San Marzano "type"
San Marzanos offer a good argument for saving seed. They had become extinct except in two Italian gardens where the seed had been saved and passed down for generations. That's why San Marzanos are labeled as 1 or 2 depending on which garden the seed was gathered from. San Marzano 2 seems to be a bit larger and blockier.

That is very interesting information Hoodat. I am growing Golden San Marzanos this year. I have grown the red ones before but I grow so many tomatoes that it's hard for me to keep up with them and stake them. They can get pretty wild.

 

[hoodat]

San Marzano vines can get huge if you don't contain their growth somehow.

 

[ninnymary]

Hoodat, it's in 15 gal. pot, so maybe it won't grow as much.

Mary

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I just looked and have 8 that I will be potting up soon.

 

[baymule]

San Marzano vines can get huge if you don't contain their growth somehow.

Uh-Oh......I think I'm in trouble. I sorta-kinda-halfway squish all my plants together because my space is limited. I am pretty sure I planted the San Marzanos REEEEEEEL close to each other. Should be interesting.

 

[hoodat]

Uh-Oh......I think I'm in trouble. I sorta-kinda-halfway squish all my plants together because my space is limited. I am pretty sure I planted the San Marzanos REEEEEEEL close to each other. Should be interesting.

I've done that and they seem to grow fine close to each other. Your only trouble will be trying to find your tomatos in all that jungle.

 

[baymule]

Oh believe me @hoodat, I will find those tomatoes!!