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Re: Re[2]: Tomato varieties for taste.

Hi Shawn,

> Someone please stop me if I am making a mistake. I am ordering
> my spring/summer seeds now from Territorial Seed Co., and I was
> going to order Viva Italia F1 (Italian Sauce Tomato) for a paste
> variety, as I've never grown these before. Is this a Roma? Am I
> going to get a blah tomato? I also like to use them in salads,
> sandwiches and fresh salsa, especially. Please help.
> Shawn
> swestaway@smtplink.coh.org
> Claremont, Ca (USDA zone 9b, Sunset zone 19)

I'm grown them several times.  They're an elongated egg shaped paste variety,
fairly thick skinned and quite good in my opinion, definitely not blah.  A
little moister inside than some of the very dry paste varieties, so I suppose
you could make a sandwich with one although they are best suited for making
sauce or paste.  The determinate bushes get about 3-4' tall, so are best grown
caged.  I use cages make of page wire, 4' tall and about 2-3' in diameter.  Like
most determinates I find them pretty susceptable to blight.  If you can grow
them where they'll have some protection from overhead watering/rain they'll fair
much better.

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  |     Bob Carter     | Kootenay Bay
  |  bcarter@awinc.com | BC, Canada
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