Vegetable / Warm season
Roma Tomato
Best for sauce beds, patio grow bags, and canning-focused gardens.
Dense flesh, low seed gel, classic cooked tomato flavor.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 76
- Germination temperature
- 70-90F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 24 inches
- Row spacing
- 36 inches
- Start method
- Start indoors
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 6 weeks before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days after last frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Even moisture; avoid wet foliage late in the day.
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil with steady calcium and organic matter.
- Watch
- Do not transplant into cold soil; growth stalls and disease pressure rises.
- sauce
- paste
- staking
- warm-season
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Nightshade Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Start Indoors Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: Cornell tomato growing guide