I had a lot of disease, but I managed it, and had a decent year. Plants are still producing well.
I like to make sauce, but don’t like small roma types. You need to produce so many. So I found this Romeo paste that produces, then produces more, and then some more. And the fruit is huge. I will see how the sauce is this year with Cow’s Tit, and Romeo only paste tomatoes. If it’s decent I found the pastes that work here in MI. I have 4 now, and so I’m good. But final decision will be made for these two once sauce is made. I can’t produce enough at one time so have to freeze when I make sauce.
Here’s what’s on the counter now.
Here are a couple of Romeo’s. The one on the left is a fusion of two ovaries, seems to produce a few of these every year.
I’m leaving for 4 days so picked some early to bring with me, and process when ripe. I’m going to my cottage, so no big deal to bring with me. Romeo is a typical paste, hardly any seed or gel, all meat.
Those are all Romeo on the left. the plant produced about 30 of these babies this year
It still has about 8 more on the plant. The plant was in ground. In the future I will grow 3 or more of these plants for sauce and I can probably process fresh at times with this kind of yield. In the bowl at the top is some Cow’s Tit. Not that big, but the plant produces like Romeo, very impressive yield. A keeper for me.