Practice crop rotation every three years. Spray aphids and flea beetles with insecticidal soap. These tomatoes range from grape to near golf-ball size and often contain the highest levels of natural sugars, such as in Sweetie Cherries. Easy to grow in containers, they make wonderful winter tomatoes for the greenhouse or a sunny south-facing room. Begin in late summer for the Christmas harvest and grow them in either pots for hanging or in clay pots and trellis those that are tall, or indeterminate.
Some rare heirlooms are even green, tiny, and still have a full tomato taste.
Like cherries, Romas too are remarkably diverse in both size and shape. Every bit as easy to grow as other tomatoes, Romas can be either long and blocky or pear-shaped, depending on the variety. Our Viva Italia strain is one of the best every developed for it has something many other romas do not have, a naturally high sugar content which makes them as delicious fresh as many other non-Roma types. Romas and plum tomatoes all share the same characteristic of having very little juice and high solids content, making them perfect for homemade salsa, tomato paste, tomato sauce and for making sun-dried tomatoes. This is one of the premier Heirloom selections available.