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Description
Heirloom Roma Tomato Seeds (.5g)
Roma tomatoes can be used in sauces, slow roasted, or eaten raw.
Grow this versatile plant from Patriot Seeds for tasty, non-GMO Roma tomatoes in your own garden.
Patriot Seeds are heirloom, open-pollinated, and can be grown, harvested, and replanted, endlessly. They are friendly to most growing regions, too.
When you're ready to declare your food independence, buy Patriot Seeds.
Heirloom Roma Tomato Seeds Planting Instructions
Follow these instructions for planting your seeds:
- Indoor Start – Begin seeds indoors 5 to 6 weeks prior to last frost. Plant seeds 1/8 inch deep in good potting soil.
- Warmth & Moisture – Keep the seeds warm and moist.
- Transplanting – Move outdoors with a spacing of 30 to 36 inches apart.
- Hardening – Keep transplants outside during the day, and bring them in at night.
- Temperature – Transplant when nighttime temperatures stay above 45°F.
- Soil Warming – Use black plastic mulch, row covers, or hot caps to warm soil early on. Remove if temperatures exceed 85°F.
- Watering – Water as needed.
Heirloom Roma Tomato Seeds Harvesting Instructions
Now, for your harvesting instructions:
- Vine Ripening – Let plants ripen on the vine for best flavor.
- Checking Ripeness – Monitor the bottoms of tomatoes to assess ripeness.
- Harvesting – Pick your tomatoes when the skin looks smooth and waxy.
Did You Know This About Roma Tomatoes?
Unlike other types of tomatoes, Roma tomatoes ripen all at once. Most other tomatoes ripen from the bottom up over time.
In the American colonies, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous because of its membership in the otherwise deadly nightshade family.
