UC Master Gardener Program of Alameda County

Tomatoes

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Paste tomatoes

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Recommended Paste / Roma Tomato Varieties
VarietyDescription
Amish Paste8 oz. • 85 days • Red • Heirloom • Indeterminate

Produces paste-type fruit with an oblong oxheart shape. Fruit is solid with an outstandingly good, sweet flavor.
Juliet2-2.5" • 60 days • Red • Indeterminate

A larger sister variety of Santa. One of the most disease resistant in our trials. Typically 12-18 fruits per cluster. Delicious, rich tomato flavor for salads, great salsa, and fresh pasta sauce.
LaRoma III3.5" • 80 days • Red • Hybrid • Indeterminate

Excellent for canning, tomato paste, or puree. Rectangular, pear-shaped fruit with mild flavor and meaty texture.
San Marzano4 oz. • 80 days • Red • Open pollinated • Indeterminate

Famous Italian cooking tomato filled with thick, dry flesh and few seeds. Superb flavor in slightly rectangular fruits hanging in clusters.

Cherry Tomatoes

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Recommended Cherry Tomato Varieties
VarietyDescription
Black Cherry1-2 oz. • 75 days • Purple-brown • Open pollinated • Indeterminate

Vigorous plants with large vines that yield very well and produce dusky purple-brown grape-like tomatoes with a rich, complex flavor.
Sun Gold1 oz. • 65 days • Orange • Hybrid • Indeterminate

A positively luscious bite-size cherry that isn’t fully mature until it turns bright apricot-orange with an intensified taste.
Sunrise Bumble Bee1 oz. • 70 days • Yellow and red • Indeterminate

Gorgeous combination of yellows and reds, inside and out. Excellent sweet and tangy flavor.
Supersweet 100.5 oz. • 65 days • Red • Hybrid • Indeterminate

This popular, reliable variety has long fruiting stems that produce 100 or more super-sweet, 1-inch diameter cherry tomatoes.
Yellow Pear2" • 78 days • Yellow • Indeterminate

These miniature pear-shaped tomatoes are delightfully sweet and considered by many as "garden candy."

Catalog photo credits: UC Master Gardeners—1P. Dimas, 2P. Joki, 3D. Laner, 4T. Loftus, 5G. Myers, 6S. Wentz, 7S. Wood, 8C. Yip, 9Unknown UC Master Gardener of Alameda County.