Tomato, Amish Paste

Quick facts Amish heirloom Excellent for sauce making Widely adapted Solanum lycopersicum 75-85 days, indeterminate. Large, blocky, acorn-shaped fruit with limited juices and seeds for cooking down, canning and sauce making.  One of the largest "paste" tomatoes, meaty and coreless fruit range from 6-12 oz and are probably better suited for sauce than paste. Don't be afraid to use it as a slicing tomato as well as it is quite sweet.  Multitalented, it has a perfect tomatoey acid and sugar balance.  Bears deep red fruit on indeterminate vines to keep you in paste tomatoes all season long. Popular and widely grown, its adapted to a range of soil and climatic conditions.   Foliage is sparse, so sunburn and cracking can be a problem in hot, dry conditions.  Late-season bearing.   A bit of its story: 1870s Heirloom originally from Medford, Wisconsin, the oldest Amish community in the state.  Acquired from the Amish in Lancaster Co., PA by Tom Hauch of Heirloom Seeds.  Later offered b