Comments on: 14 Best Tomatoes For Salsa, Canning, And Sauces

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 22:05:04 +0000

Thanks for this article. I hope you continue to follow up with your experience in trialing some of these disease resistant varieties.
For a dozen years we grew nothing but paste tomatoes, however disease pressure has increase so much that today we cannot successfully grow any paste tomatoes. We now rely on newer “non-paste” tomato varieties for our sauce production.
Hopefully more attention will be given to developing “plum and paste” tomatoes with strong resistance to disease pressure from late blight and other viruses.

By: Bonnie Bradt

Bonnie Bradt — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 19:24:26 +0000

I still find that the old standby Romas are almost completely BER resistant year after year. Last season tried Gladiator and their impressive size was staggering. But I lost my whole Gladiator crop to deer when a gate was accidentally left open. Will try again!

By: Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:49:21 +0000

I appreciate this article. I’m growing “Big Mama” (elongated with pointy end) variety from Burpee; it’s an indeterminate. It’s supposed to be good for saucing. I’m getting lots of BER, and some good tomatoes. Heat could be a factor, but I think it’s the variety as I’ve accounted for other variables. Next year I’ll switch to one or more varieties listed above.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:24:22 +0000

In reply to ng padre. Thanks for the feedback. FYI unless your soil is deficient in calcium, an additive won't actually help BER. With end rot, there is a relative calcium deficiency which is caused by sequestering of the mineral elsewhere in the plant. This most often happens early in the season during rapid growth, and then it goes away on its own. So it could be that your pozzanos are just doing that. But it sounds like you've got a pretty good system worked out either way.

By: ng padre

ng padre — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:56:06 +0000

Pozzano is a tomato variety with terrific yields which are wonderful for sauce. BUT (and please read through for the good news), Pozzanos are NOT resistant to blossom end rot (BER) despite the claims made here and by several seed companies. In fact, the Pozzano variety is by far the most susceptible to BER of any variety we have ever grown. And we have trialed many varieties. Now the good news. Every year, we keep a close watch on the earliest little Pozzanos. When they show the first signs of BER—and they do—we remove them and treat all our tomato varieties with calcium. We use a liquid form that mixes with water, added to a regular watering. Repeat every 10 days or so, and we have no further issue with BER on our entire tomato crop regardless of variety. Pozzanos are our bellwether for blossom end rot. With that caveat, we enthusiastically recommend the variety. Perhaps in a climate with moderate, regularly-spaced rainfall and a subsoil that percolates well, variety Pozzano might resist BER, but then, so would all the varieties.