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Tomato
Roma
Determinate plum tomato with a concentrated harvest window. Low moisture content makes it well suited to sauces, passata, and drying.
Key facts
- Growth habit
- determinate
- Produce type
- plum
- Support
- recommended
- Sun
- full sun
- Height
- 90-120 cm
- Spacing
- 45 cm
- Days to harvest
- 75–80 days
- Avg. yield
- 2-3 kg per season
- Watering
- high
- Frost sensitivity
- high
For all tomato issues and threats, see the Tomato page.
Related guides
Harvesting tomatoes: cherry, plum, and vine types
Different tomato types ripen differently and respond to different cues. Knowing when and how to pick keeps production going and prevents splits and disease.
Growing tomatoes successfully
Tomatoes reward careful attention to warmth, support, and sideshot removal. Most failures come from cold stress or letting plants become too congested.