Tomato 'Margherita'

I always considered this tomato to be a roma, and it's been my go-to for sauce and salsa for about 16 years. Our growing season varies fr...Read Moreom year to year (Coast Range, Oregon west of Eugene) and this tomato has never failed me when other dependables have. I use drip irrigation. When the rains start in early fall, this is the only tomato that does not split, and it keeps producing well into the fall.

So, I have found margherita to be an exceptional, high-producing, quick to flower, disease-resistant and very tasty tomato. I eat it, use it for sauce and salsa, and dry it.

I accidentally stumbled into this tomato as someone placed a pack of Margherita seeds in the Roma bin...I'll never grow Roma again. This...Read More tomato grows much easier, ZERO blossom end rot, and despite being determinate puts out a long harvest...just keep picking them. Hint: keep all foliage cut up to about 9" from ground....just stems. They do better this way.
Size is about 2-3 times of a roma, and taste is superior, even to many "round" tomatoes. I use them for salads, sandwiches, and sauces. There's nothing I can't find that this tomato does not do well.

A 5-6 ounce long cylindrical saladette hybrid.