Schiavone Italian Paste Tomato

90 days, indeterminate — This tomato variety is another example of our core mission to protect family heirlooms. After being contacted by Robert Schiavone in the winter of 2011, he sent us seed to grow out here on the farm.

As the name describes, this is a very nice, bright red, paste-type tomato that is very meaty and tasty. The plants have dense foliage and are very productive. Like most paste varieties, there are few seeds.

Robert recounted the history of the variety to us as follows, “My grandfather, Salvatore Schiavone, came over to America when he was just seven years old (in around 1910).  He came from a small town just outside of Palermo (Sicily) called Borgetto.