These tomatoes are great for canning, they grew well in my zone 5b garden and they were a good size.

I grew a swathe of paste tomatoes this year including the Inciardi Paste. It was a vigorous grower in my single leader system with good resistance to blossom end rot. Productivity was good.

It did not improve flavor unless left on the vine for a VERY long time after being seemingly ripe (color fully through the fruit, good texture). In general I found Amish Paste to be better tasting with similar characteristics.

Sauce made with the tomato is good. I wasn't able to find it meaningfully different than Amish paste, San Marzano, nor Opalka when cooked down.

Perhaps long hot nights didn't help, our midsummer in NJ this year (2024) was very dry hot and long.

So I grew 4 different paste tomatoes this year, Inciardi, Amish, Opaika and San Marzano. While Inciardi didn’t produce as many tomatoes as each of the other three, they did produce the largest tomatoes with minimal seeds and a ton of meat. Oh and great flavor! The growth habit of these are different as well. The leaves and branches to the leaves are thinner and almost whispy. Maybe that’s because it concentrates on heavy fruit? The stem was what you would expect from an indeterminate thick and able to support the fruit 😁 It’s still an indeterminate though and definitely need to be trellised.

I grew two kinds of paste tomatoes in 2024 season. The "Inciardi Paste Tomato" did very well for me and is the only paste tomato in 2024 I could count on. The "Ten Fingers of Naples Paste Tomato" (from Pinetree Seeds) was the worst tomato I have ever tried to grow with blossom-end rot (BER) on almost every tomato. Thanks to MIgardener for offering the Inciardi tomato seeds. MIgardener has earned my trust.

Quick and easy!