Champion Growers

This is the page where you can become famous ! Send us your photo of your Mr Ugly tomato. The ugliest tomatoes will win a pair of Felco 310 tomato pruners, great for pruning plants and harvesting fruit. The winner for the 07 southern hemisphere season is Clairy from Sydney, Australia. Here is what she said: "After a few mishaps with wind etc, I was finally able to grow them to a stage where I could plant them out in the garden. The taste was delicious and the plants grew to well over 6ft tall. They needed extra support." Of course I need extra support - its the mental scarring from being so ugly!

You note on the web site that it'll grow to about 5ft. How does 9 weeks in the ground, 4 main growing points, countless leaders forming, only a few new small fruit forming, still growing very fast, and now heading up past 7ft sound???

Seriously, its bloody huge!

It started with a 4ft cage but outgrew that in weeks. I have 2x6ft stakes which it has
now also outgrown. So I've had to run a trellis line across at about the 7ft mark and am running support lines down off that. Any growth over that is just going to have to stay horizontal.

I planted 4 others: Grafted Apollo Improved and Gross Lisse.... Heirloom Black
Russian and San Marzano. All of these are not much over 4 ft and NOWHERE near as bulky.

Not the best photo as it's blending in with the Fruit trees and Zucchinis, but you can
see just how much I am having to try and support this thing with twine.

EVERY single person that has seen it is totally blown away by the size. Its crazy!

Will touch base again once I have some fruit and also get a picture of the plant even
bigger.