Amish Paste Tomato
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- Organic
- Best-selling paste tomato
- Bright red fruits grow to 8-12 ounces
- Fruits vary in shape from oxheart to plum
- Juicy and meaty flesh
- Excellent for sauce or fresh eating
- Indeterminate - Fruit ripens throughout the season
- 85 days from transplant
- ±13,500 seeds/oz
Item Details
Tom Hauch of Heirloom Seeds commercialized this variety in 1990. It was acquired from the Amish near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Bright red 8-12 ounce fruits vary in shape from oxheart to rounded plum. Delicious flesh is juicy and meaty, excellent for sauce or fresh eating. One of Slow Food USAs Ark of Taste varieties. Indeterminate, 85 days from transplant. ±13,500 seeds/oz.
Learn to Grow Amish Paste Tomato
Start Indoors: 6 weeks before last frost
Germination: 7-14 Days
Plant Outdoors: 24-36” Apart
Support: Cage, stake, or trellis
Instructions - Sow seeds indoors ¼" deep. Tomatoes are sensitive to freezing temperatures, so wait to transplant outdoors until the soil is warm. Plant in full sun.
Ratings & Reviews
9 reviews
Highly Productive and great taste
by Roger
My favorite tomato. It's great for canning, salads, or burgers. It has very few seeds and is extremely meaty making it amazing for canning. the taste if great and I've grown them in a little shade in the past and not lost flavor or production. I've gotten as many as 20 tomatoes the size of a 15 ounce can off one plant. Highly recommend this tomato.
All around great tomato
by John
Grew taller than my single story house. Great rich flavor makes a nice sandwich and soup/sauce. Very versatile just have to keep pinching the suckers off as this variety suckers heavy. Grown in North county San diego.
Fabulous paste tomato
by Tamara
I have had several tomatoes this year that were between 13 oz and 1 lb. Highly recommend these, they are wonderful for making pasta and pizza sauce. I also like to slice and dehydrate them.
Great All-Around Option
by DS
Great producer, few seeds, nice flavor and not heavily watery. Very enjoyable all-around tomato for slicing and canning.
Great Tomato But...
by Birdie
I have grown Amish Paste tomatoes for years and will continue to do so however I have one caution, they develop blossom end rot easily if grown in containers with commercial soil. I have grown tomatoes for decades and never had trouble with blossom end rot until I tried to grow these in containers. We live in Northern Nevada where there is sufficient calcium in the native soil, the Amish Paste tomatoes do well in our native soil, even producing well in our windy arid climate at 5000+ feet elevation!
The Best Canning Tomato
by Carolyn Brow
This is the best tomato I have found for marinara sauce. Great for canning; much better than San Marzano.
First Time Trying
by TERRY
First year trying these. Great Flavor. Good size
Great sauce tomato
by Tia
I tried these this year, a truly amazing tomato. It is late to ripen but well worth the wait. These are huge plum tomatoes. Superior flavor superior color. Be advised that they get very tall, my plants were 8 feet tall. I will plant these again
Winner for best paste variety
by Rachel
I can see why everyone loves this tomato. For several years I've tried to find a paste tomato that will handle our extreme weather (heat, strong winds, zone 5) and not have blossom end rot. This has been the winner. I got probably 50+ lbs off 5 tightly spaced plants (gave them 2' X 8' in a raised bed). They're delicious fresh, and the sauce they made is an incredibly vibrant red. It did take a while to get the fruit to ripen, I had to bring in some green on the stem, but held them in open cardboard boxes and they all ripened to bright red within 3 weeks.