Sausage

barefootgardener · May 20, 2011

Monday I went to our local Amish Greenhouse and they had some 4 pk tomato plants marked as " Roma Paste"..After talking to the owner/grower, he said they were "Sausage" paste tomatoes. he put Roma because that is what he associates all paste types to be..I recommended he also put the real name on the labels, so people like myself who have grown the Roma, would realize it is not the same old variety.

I am growing around 80 different varieties of tomatoes from seed already, and some are new to me paste varieties..(a few of my pastes are struggling after I planted them last week and we had a heavy freeze on Monday/Tuesday}..Well I need another variety of tomato like I need a hole in my head , but now since I have never grown Sausage before...I was interested in giving it a shot. So at $1.25 for a nice sized 4 pk..I bought a couple..This is the first year the Amish gentleman is selling it and could not give me much info outside of what his seed catalogue described..I did a search and not much history about it!

Can anyone who has grown this tell me how the plant and fruit did for them, and how productive? How well did it perform as a paste variety? How well did it cook down into sauce etc...Thank you...

As a side note, I am growing Wessell's Purple Pride, (which also got frost nipped when its protective covers blew off!) which I believe is a cross of Cherokee Purple and Sausage..It was very productive for me last year and made a wonderful soup and sauce once it cooked down...Love it!

Ginny

camochef · May 20, 2011

Ginny,
I've grown lot's of paste tomatoes over the years but never Sausage. I have grown Wessel's Purple Pride and thought it to be a great tomato for sauces.
I used to grow Opalka as a paste/garden snacker until 2009 when we had a very cool and wet year and Opalka's became watery, bloated and tasteless, but that was the year that Wessel's Purple Pride really showed it stuff. Good Luck with them and all the others this year.
Camo

Worth1 · May 20, 2011

I grew it a few years ago and it tasted like the sausage that they make north of here in Elgin Texas.

It wasn't quite as fatty as the real stuff but found it to be a good substitute for the real thing.

I believe it is a cross between onions, garlic, coriander, red peppers, black pepper, red tomatoes and a large white pig.

I just love this GMO food they have these days.

No I grew it once or twice and I liked it better than roma tomatoes anythings better than roma tomatoes.

I dont do paste tomatoes much but as I recall it was a good one.

Worth

barefootgardener · May 20, 2011

Camo, Thank's. I grew W.P.P for the first time in my 2010 garden and it was wonderful. I remember your high praise for it and read a lot of good reports on it, and that is why I grew it..

Worth, Seeing how I never tasted a sausage made in Elgin TX, I'll just take your word for it!

Love your humor! Thank's. I agree... anything is better than Roma's!

**carolyn137** · May 20, 2011

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Sausage

Yes, I've grown it. It's a generically named long red paste variety of which there are many many other long red paste tomatoes, most of them with specific variety names.

It's been around forever, but it's too dark in here right now for me to look at my past Yearbooks but I bet it's listed in some of the very first SSE YEarbooks that came out going back to 1975/76.

While I think there are better paste tomatoes than Sausage, that's not really the point for it's up to each person to grow it and then compare with other paste varieties the way I see it.

SunnyK · May 21, 2011

I grew a few 'Sausage' Tomato plants last season in pots.... and they were very prolific. I bet I would have been drowning in them had they been in my actual garden.
As far as cooking...well when I make sauces I use a combination of all of my tomatoes from Beefsteaks to pastes to cherry types, so I cant tell you specifically how they did.

barefootgardener · May 22, 2011

Carolyn thank's.., I did check previously at Tatiana's site and did not see any info/feedback on taste, meatiness or productivity. The description say's plum shaped ..I assumed it was more elognated in length..

I am growing a few more new to me paste varietes this year..Kenosha Paste is one from your offer. I plan on making lots of thick sauce just from pastes alone..

Sunny, Thank's for the info..good to hear Sausage was prolific for you..I have eight plants of Sausage, and a few plants each of other varieties..Should be plenty then.. I usually throw lots of different varieties in a pot for sauce to..Whatever ripens first..I still plan on canning that way again..
But I want to try making sauce with just paste varieties to see how it compares in thickness/taste and cooking time..Last year when I canned sauce I threw in whatever tomatoes were ripe at the time and it took a while for some batches to cook down to the right thickness I wanted..I canned around 50 quarts of sauce last season. And used every jar.. I want even more this year.

davespitzer · May 22, 2011

I'm growing a hybrid called "Pizza Peppers" that may be a similar cross, minus the pig genes and with the addition of wheat genes and some dairy cow material

. If you kept any seed from your 'sausage', wanna trade seeds? Dave

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Originally Posted by Worth1

I grew it a few years ago and it tasted like the sausage that they make north of here in Elgin Texas.

It wasn't quite as fatty as the real stuff but found it to be a good substitute for the real thing.

I believe it is a cross between onions, garlic, coriander, red peppers, black pepper, red tomatoes and a large white pig.

I just love this GMO food they have these days.

No I grew it once or twice and I liked it better than roma tomatoes anythings better than roma tomatoes.

I dont do paste tomatoes much but as I recall it was a good one.

Worth

brokenbar · May 22, 2011

Quote:

I grew it a few years ago and it tasted like the sausage that they make north of here in Elgin Texas.

It wasn't quite as fatty as the real stuff but found it to be a good substitute for the real thing.

I believe it is a cross between onions, garlic, coriander, red peppers, black pepper, red tomatoes and a large white pig.

I just love this GMO food they have these days.

Feelin' frisky are we Worth? FUNNY!!!

dice · May 24, 2011

Victory Seeds description and a picture:
http://www.victoryseeds.com/tomato_sausage.html

barefootgardener · May 24, 2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by dice

Victory Seeds description and a picture:
http://www.victoryseeds.com/tomato_sausage.html

dice, thank you for the link to V.S..That is the first picture I have seen of Sausage. It is an odd shape for a paste, but if it gets up to six/eight inches long it could be a really nice large paste..Lot's of sauce if we have a good garden season and it is healthy and productive!..Thank's again!

May 20, 2011	#1
barefootgardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Michigan Zone 4b Posts: 1,291	Sausage Monday I went to our local Amish Greenhouse and they had some 4 pk tomato plants marked as " Roma Paste"..After talking to the owner/grower, he said they were "Sausage" paste tomatoes. he put Roma because that is what he associates all paste types to be..I recommended he also put the real name on the labels, so people like myself who have grown the Roma, would realize it is not the same old variety. I am growing around 80 different varieties of tomatoes from seed already, and some are new to me paste varieties..(a few of my pastes are struggling after I planted them last week and we had a heavy freeze on Monday/Tuesday}..Well I need another variety of tomato like I need a hole in my head , but now since I have never grown Sausage before...I was interested in giving it a shot. So at $1.25 for a nice sized 4 pk..I bought a couple..This is the first year the Amish gentleman is selling it and could not give me much info outside of what his seed catalogue described..I did a search and not much history about it! Can anyone who has grown this tell me how the plant and fruit did for them, and how productive? How well did it perform as a paste variety? How well did it cook down into sauce etc...Thank you... As a side note, I am growing Wessell's Purple Pride, (which also got frost nipped when its protective covers blew off!) which I believe is a cross of Cherokee Purple and Sausage..It was very productive for me last year and made a wonderful soup and sauce once it cooked down...Love it! Ginny

May 20, 2011	#5
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Sausage Yes, I've grown it. It's a generically named long red paste variety of which there are many many other long red paste tomatoes, most of them with specific variety names. It's been around forever, but it's too dark in here right now for me to look at my past Yearbooks but I bet it's listed in some of the very first SSE YEarbooks that came out going back to 1975/76. While I think there are better paste tomatoes than Sausage, that's not really the point for it's up to each person to grow it and then compare with other paste varieties the way I see it. __________________ Carolyn

May 24, 2011	#10
dice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: PNW Posts: 4,743	Victory Seeds description and a picture: http://www.victoryseeds.com/tomato_sausage.html __________________ -- alias

May 20, 2011	#2
camochef Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Posts: 707	Ginny, I've grown lot's of paste tomatoes over the years but never Sausage. I have grown Wessel's Purple Pride and thought it to be a great tomato for sauces. I used to grow Opalka as a paste/garden snacker until 2009 when we had a very cool and wet year and Opalka's became watery, bloated and tasteless, but that was the year that Wessel's Purple Pride really showed it stuff. Good Luck with them and all the others this year. Camo

May 20, 2011	#3
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	I grew it a few years ago and it tasted like the sausage that they make north of here in Elgin Texas. It wasn't quite as fatty as the real stuff but found it to be a good substitute for the real thing. I believe it is a cross between onions, garlic, coriander, red peppers, black pepper, red tomatoes and a large white pig. I just love this GMO food they have these days. No I grew it once or twice and I liked it better than roma tomatoes anythings better than roma tomatoes. I dont do paste tomatoes much but as I recall it was a good one. Worth

May 21, 2011	#6
SunnyK Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Stratford CT., Z6 or new for 2013 Z7 Posts: 126	I grew a few 'Sausage' Tomato plants last season in pots.... and they were very prolific. I bet I would have been drowning in them had they been in my actual garden. As far as cooking...well when I make sauces I use a combination of all of my tomatoes from Beefsteaks to pastes to cherry types, so I cant tell you specifically how they did.

May 22, 2011	#7
barefootgardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Michigan Zone 4b Posts: 1,291	Carolyn thank's.., I did check previously at Tatiana's site and did not see any info/feedback on taste, meatiness or productivity. The description say's plum shaped ..I assumed it was more elognated in length.. I am growing a few more new to me paste varietes this year..Kenosha Paste is one from your offer. I plan on making lots of thick sauce just from pastes alone.. Sunny, Thank's for the info..good to hear Sausage was prolific for you..I have eight plants of Sausage, and a few plants each of other varieties..Should be plenty then.. I usually throw lots of different varieties in a pot for sauce to..Whatever ripens first..I still plan on canning that way again.. But I want to try making sauce with just paste varieties to see how it compares in thickness/taste and cooking time..Last year when I canned sauce I threw in whatever tomatoes were ripe at the time and it took a while for some batches to cook down to the right thickness I wanted..I canned around 50 quarts of sauce last season. And used every jar.. I want even more this year.