I too am in Toronto Canada but very new to the gardening thing. My Mom
grew up on a farm during the Great Depression and still has the "green
thumb" skills. Anyway, I planted my own tomatoes for the first time
back in early June; I got two boxes of Ultra Boy and they were
practically giving the baskets away. I dutifully planted two sets of
plants and placed baskets straight on top.

When my Mom came over I proudly showed her what I had done. "I hate to
tell you, son, but you'll have to re-plant them!"

"How come?"

"You put four plants all together in one hole!"

"But they were packaged that way!"

Oh well, you live and learn. I actually had 8 plants and I dug them up
and re-planted. Good thing the baskets were so cheap. Nor did I have
to worry too much about watering over this very wet 2004 summer. The
tomatoes are now ready for harvest and I have been supplying family
and friends with very plump, round, red, juicy and scrumptious
samples. My morning BLT never tasted so good.

Best,
Denny

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http://home.ca.inter.net/~deniswb/tomatoes.jpg

Priscilla H Ballou wrote in message ...
Fran?oise quoth:
I looked in my catalogue and did not find Tigerella tomatoes.

Maybe they're only on the website?
http://www.seedsofchange.com/garden_...item_no=S10995

I live in
Canada and I guess we have tomatoes that grow well here since our season
is quite short. I planted 2 kinds: Pilgrim and Big Beef. Their tastes
are similar and both can be eaten without salt. The firmness is the same
as well as they are both juicy and both are big tomatoes. Both their
skins are almost as the pulpe. No hard skin. The Pilgrim is determinate
but the Big Beef grows very high and needed staking. The Big Beef have
produced more tomatoes on each plant. The big Beef needed more work do
to them because the plants were very high and very heavy. The tomato
gages were not enough to support the plants. We had to put big stakes
besides. I had to cut many branches to permit the sun to reach the
tomatoes.
We have been eating them everyday now. A fresh tomato beats the winter
one bought in the shop.

And that's no lie! :-)

Priscilla