First leaves on the San Marzano tomatoes I started last month. They are looking great and nothing is better for tomato sauce.
San Marzano are terrific tomatos!
“San Marzano tomatoes originate from the small town of San Marzano sul Sarno, near Naples, Italy, and were first grown in volcanic soil in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. One story goes that the first seed of this tomato came to Campania in 1770, as a gift from the Viceroyalty of Peru to the Kingdom of Naples, and that it was planted in the area of San Marzano sul Sarno.”
“In the United States, San Marzano tomatoes are the genetic base for another popular paste tomato, the Roma tomato. The Roma is a cross between a San Marzano and two other varieties (one of which was also a San Marzano hybrid) and was introduced by the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in 1955.”
“Amy P. Goldman calls the San Marzano ‘the most important industrial tomato of the 20th century’; its commercial introduction in 1926 provided canneries with a sturdy, flawless subject, and breeders with genes they’d be raiding for decades.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marzano_tomato