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Days to Maturity: 80
Full Sun
Approximate Seed Count: 10
AnnualIndeterminate. One of the rarest paste tomatoes available. Brought over by a Sicilian Immigrant in the early 1900s, and is famed for its size, flavor, and amazing yield. This tomato was nearly lost but was brought back from the brink of extinction by seeds saved from only about a dozen gardeners in Chicago. Be a part of the movement to save these important historical fruits.
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.
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Very happy with my purchase. I planted 40 seeds and they all germinated! Felt like I ran the lottery. Haven’t had a harvest yet but they are growing well. Already knee high. Very happy with my purchase
This is my second year ordering the bare root strawberry plants, and I will say these are the healthiest plant starts!! I will order again
I loved my Chandler Blueberries. I have had it for a year now. As a beginner blueberry grower, I loved how easily it is to maintain the plant in its healthy state. I live in Zone 7. It lived through its first winter snow, and sprouted back up in Spring, just shows how cold-hardy it can be. It is now slowly blooming. Hopefully in the next few years it will produce me some juicy blueberries!
Not so great raw, but awesome sautéed and in soups! Grows great in warm climate. It takes a while to get started, but once it takes off, it doesn't stop! Very easy for new gardeners ❣️
Once the bare root arrived, I immediately saw a sprout growing from the tip. I was pleasantly surprised it had gone out of dormancy. It is currently growing healthy green foliage outside in part shade and full sun. I see a few grape clusters though unfortunately I have to cut them, so the plant’s roots fully establish.
