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

Priscilla,

Thank you for the address. I went to the site and these Tigerella
tomatoes seem interesting. I kept the address and I may try them next
year. I will plant just a couple of plants in case it is a disaster
here. I never saw these orange tomatoes neither in the stores or in the
seed catalogues that I use. In my catalogue on paper or on the net, I
saw a yellow tomato seed. I was tempted to order a package last winter.
I chicken out since it was my first experience in growing tomatoes from
seeds.

I never order any seeds from another country and I do not know if there
are some difficulties. I ordered from different seed companies but I
find Veseys Seeds the best. Their web site is very easy to use and they
have a good choice of flowers. The company is in Prince Edward Island,
Canada.

Françoise.

Priscilla H Ballou wrote:

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

Priscilla

Denny,

I love your story. Even when we have been gardening for sometimes, we
can still make errors. This year I planted Lavatera for the first time.
On the package, it was written to plant seeds in peat pots, which I did.
It was also written to plant the seedlings 18 - 24 inches apart. I did
not followed this instruction because I like crowded flowers. I planted
5 seedlings in an area 2 ft x 2 ft. For a reason 3 of them started to
lose their leaves (maybe eaten by something) and died, 2 were not
affected. Now the 2 lavateras are so big that they take at least 3 ft x
3 ft space and pushing the surrounding flowers away. I just can imagine
what it would have been if all 5 would have survived.

Françoise.

Nudest wrote:

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

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:22:56 -0400, Françoise
wrote:

Priscilla,

Thank you for the address. I went to the site and these Tigerella
tomatoes seem interesting. I kept the address and I may try them next
year. I will plant just a couple of plants in case it is a disaster
here. I never saw these orange tomatoes neither in the stores or in the
seed catalogues that I use. In my catalogue on paper or on the net, I
saw a yellow tomato seed. I was tempted to order a package last winter.
I chicken out since it was my first experience in growing tomatoes from
seeds.

I never order any seeds from another country and I do not know if there
are some difficulties. I ordered from different seed companies but I
find Veseys Seeds the best. Their web site is very easy to use and they
have a good choice of flowers. The company is in Prince Edward Island,
Canada.

Françoise.

For any Canadians reading the group, www.icangarden.com is an
excellent place to start for sourcing cold-hardy seeds and plant
stock. See their "suppliers" section. They list most of the boutique
growers in the country.

Shirley Hicks
Toronto, Ontario
"A liberal is a conservative who's been through treatment."
- Garrison Keillor