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.
Planted Incaiardi paste tomatoes seedlings two weeks ago and they look great.
All the seeds from Migardener have had great germination rates-I expect these will also germinate well. Happy customer here!
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 have been buying seeds from you for the last 3 years. They germinate very well, and have produced the best gardens I have ever had. I just got my order for this year started in my greenhouse. For the first time I opened a packet of All Seasons Cabbage and there were no seeds in it. the rest of the order is doing great. The price of the seeds also good.
Respectfully,
Terry A. Brannan
This is my first year growing straw flower. The germination rate is fantastic and you get so many seeds. Can't wait till they can moved outdoors and bloom in my purple flower bed.
Everything but the royal paste sprouted. Sometimes that happens. Will place another order for fall planting.
This variety was excellent for me for cooking. I needed to pick fewer leaves and chopping was a breeze. The spinich felt more succulent and thicker than the American (smaller spoon shaped leaves). I would use it for cooking and keep the smaller leaved varieties for raw salad eating. My weather was a tricky early on and off again spring and winter pattern, so I think that triggered early bolting, but even still. It was pretty hands off and worth it.
Awesome producer and neat looking fruit! The abundant cucumber beetles seem to ignore the vines too!
