I am glad Marzano Fire seems to be generally be doing well. It seems to be one of those OP varieties that doesn't have too many flaws, and is a pretty consistent producer of high quality tomatoes.
Our customers are starting to catch on too (it's hard to get a reasonable price for paste tomatoes, when the paste tomato is the commodity tomato in Calif). Early in the season we had a backlog of the variety (good thing it stores well). But as the season went on, we could not keep up with demand.
It is turning out to be a very good oven-roasting tomato (cut into strips, and dry/slow roast at "low" temp).
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