Variety profile
Tomato ‚San Marzano’
Solanum lycopersicum · Solanaceae
- Ripening
- mittel
- Harvest
- Week 31 to 39
- Vigour
- stark
- Growth habit
- Stab
- Origin
- Italien, Kampanien
- Open-pollinated
- Yes
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Use
- Sauce, Kochen, Einlegen, Trocknen
- Disease resistance
- Kraut Und Braunfaeule: gering
About this variety
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The classic Italian plum tomato for sugo and preserving, with elongated, firm fleshed fruits that carry few seeds and hardly any juice and cook down into wonderfully thick sauces. It grows as a vigorous cordon tomato and crops over a long period, but it needs a warm site and good support, because the shoots become heavy. Fresh in a salad it is rather mealy; its strength lies clearly in the pot and the pan. Open pollinated and grown in southern Italy for generations.
Understated raw, yet once cooked down it unfolds a rich, rounded tomato savour without sharp acidity, the gold standard for homemade tomato sauce.
Care and diseases
Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.
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