Best Paste Tomatoes For 2025!

Paste and Roma type tomatoes are wonderful for sauces and canning and fresh salsas with their meaty texture. They usually have less seeds and no big cores and the shape makes them easy to work with. We process hundreds of pounds of tomatoes each year so we are always looking for good yield and a strong performance in the garden to take advantage of our limited space. We did flavor trials with our favorites from last year. This list has all the paste tomato varieties we loved from last year as well as the list of the paste tomatoes that we are going to put in our paste tomato trials for this year. Come see what we liked and why, what we are taking a chance on for this year!

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Varieties we discuss in this video include:
Determinate:
La Roma III
Plum Regal
Sunrise Sauce
Super Sauce
Supremo
Bellatrix
Kuzco
La Roma IV
Mariana
Saucy Lady
Shelby
Yaqui

Indeterminate:
Zenzei (dwarf indeterminate)
Amish Paste
Gladiator
Granadero
Pozzano
San Marzano
Hungarian Heart
Italian Heirloom
Blue Beech
Jersey Devil
Opalka
Polish Paste
Red Sausage
Speckled Roman
Marzinera