Tomato Roma VF pack of 15-20 seeds imported

Tomato Roma VF seeds  is a favourite sauce tomato all around the world. The plum fruits weigh 60-80 grams. Roma is a determinate or with other words a bush tomato; but the plants are vigorous and mostly treated as semi-determinate. A very popular plum tomato in Italy, along with the San Marzano tomato; these two varieties are for proper jar heads.

Enjoy in salads with mozzarella or use in stews or making your own tomato sauce. This tomato can be grown successfully outside in the UK, or if you want an excellent crop you can grow the plants in the greenhouse or polytunnel too.

Tomato Roma VF seeds How to Sow and Plant

• Tomato Roma VF seeds Sow tomato seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before the last frost in spring using a seed starting kit
• Sow seeds ¼  inch deep in seed-starting formula
• Keep the soil moist at 75 degrees F
• Seedlings emerge in 7-14 days
• Tomato Roma VF Heirloom seeds As soon as seedlings emerge, provide plenty of light on a sunny windowsill or grow seedlings 3-4 inches beneath fluorescent plant lights turned on 16 hours per day, off for 8 hours at night. Raise the lights as the plants grow taller. Incandescent bulbs will not work for this process because they will get too hot. Most plants require a dark period to grow, do not leave lights on for 24 hours.
• Seedlings do not need much fertilizer, feed when they are 3-4 weeks old using a starter solution (half strength of a complete indoor houseplant food) according to manufacturer’s directions.
• If you are growing in small cells, you may need to transplant the seedlings to 3 or 4 inch pots when seedlings have at least 3 pairs of leaves before transplanting to the garden so they have enough room to develop strong roots
• Tomato Roma VF Heirloom seeds Before planting in the garden, seedling plants need to be “hardened off”. Accustom young plants to outdoor conditions by moving them to a sheltered place outside for a week. Be sure to protect them from wind and hot sun at first. If frost threatens at night, cover or bring containers indoors, then take them out again in the morning. This hardening off process toughens the plant’s cell structure and reduces transplant shock and scalding.