Product Description
Not available UFN due to costly new import regs.
* * This variety is on the Slow Food 'Ark of Taste' which means it is endangered. https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/ark-of-taste-slow-food/san-marzano-tomato/
T4 -Mentioned on BBC Radio 4's Food Programme 10/6/12. Classic Italian plum tomato from Naples used mainly for cooking as it has very little water inside, few seeds and is very meaty. Use for making Passata, cooking.
Fruits weight: up to 70g - 80g.
Growing habit: Indeterminate (cordon)
Approximate seeds quantity:@300
Sow: from February to April
Variety: Outdoor
Getting into a field of ripe San Marzano tomatoes is a unique experience: you are stunned by the fragrances of freshly cut grass and spices emanated by this tomato also when it is still green and persistent even in the canned product. All aromas reminding of the past, when salads tasted of tomato and sun and did not look like alien imperishable, odourless and flavourless objects. Up to twenty years ago, the very fertile territory around Naples and the sarnese-nocerino countryside in the province of Salerno, particularly suitable for vegetable growing, was mainly farmed with San Marzano tomatoes, a very delicate variety, with a thin skin, which keeps well also after being preserved, but which needs to be handled with care. However, due to diseases and low competitiveness in terms of cultivation costs, more productive hybrids became widespread, as more resistant to diseases and more suitable for mechanized work, but with poorer quality and organoleptic properties. The canning companies producing peeled tomatoes started purchasing these hybrids, thus endangering indigenous San Marzano.San Marzano tomatoes are grown like vines and are harvested seven, eight times or more from July to September, only when perfectly ripe and after sunset. After picking them up, the tomatoes are rinsed with water and put in the cans, then cooked for 13 minutes. Nothing else is needed: no additives, no preservatives. It will keep well for at least one year. The several small artisan firms, mainly employing women, peel the tomatoes. But the real personality of San Marzano is seen in the plate: the sauce made with these tomatoes literally sticks onto pasta and does not release any acidity.The San Marzano tomato is inextricably linked to Neapolitan pizza (Margherita), and is also an ingredient in traditional Neapolitan ragù (meat sauce).
Reviews
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Tomato San Marzano Naples
Blimey - they are HUGE! Grew them outdoors - they took longer to ripen than some varieties, but it was worth the wait. Massive, firm (if slightly oddly shaped) fruit, and masses of them.
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san marzano tomato seeds
I grow these every year and make sauces and passata. Last year for the first time ever I lost them all to blight which struck the lot out of the blue within 24 hours. But have now got 12 ready for planting outside once the nights are a touch warmer - and fingers crossed for a good season as these are the most wonderful tomatoes for genuine Italian style sauces.
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Slow germination but they made it
These took longer to germinate compared to the Costoluto but in their own time they germinatesd completelt. Unfortunately they didn't make it through the frost so I started again and I see signs for germination again! Looking forward to homemade sauce made with san marzano.
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San Marzano seeds
Grew these in a polytunnel last year - first time with them and we were stunned by the texture and flavour! Nothing you but in any shop will come even remotely close! I have a lot of seeds left over from last year and so currently have ten 2" seedlings growing on my home office window sill. Can't wait!
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Tomato San Marzano seeds
Lots of seeds and excellent germination.
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Tomato seeds
I get my tomato seeds each year usually just the small piccolo variety which are my husbands favourite, but last year I also got the large Italian pasta tomatoes which were fantastic so bought them again as well as our favourite Piccolo variety. This year I have also gone for some mixed chillies. I recommend these seeds and the company very reliable and good value.