Tomato 'Ultra Girl'

This cultivar was planted alongside Big Beef in my garden, so it is easy to make some comparisons with that popular variety. For me, Ultr...Read Morea Girl performed very well. The plants grew slower, although by the end of the season they had caught up in height with the Big Beef (BB) plants which were topped at 6 ft. They were almost as productive as BB, with generally smaller fruit and slightly thicker skins. This did not affect the flavour which was consistently very good, with a nice balance of acid/sweetness. In fact, I prefer the flavour of these tomatoes over BB. Ultra Girl produced fruit steadily all season long, but in my shady garden the first tomatoes were ready around the same time as BB even though it is an early variety. The plants also tend to have a more compact and predictable/controllable growth habit than other indeterminates making them easy to tend and suitable for container growing as well as in the garden.

If you have a sunny location and usually plant Early Girl, consider giving this one a try. It may take a few days longer to mature, but the flavour won't disappoint you. (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canadian Plant Hardiness Zone 6b, equivalent to USDA Zone 6).

Ultra Boy VFN, which-although it has one-pound fruits that ripen in 72 days-doesn't match its sister, Ultra Girl, in flavor.

A 62 days early staking hybrid. Bright red fruit are very firm, 7 - 9 oz./227 g in weight and do not have green shoulders. Ultra Girl sho...Read Morews a good tolerance to cracking. Tolerance to Verticillium, Fusarium and Nematodes. DF/HWT/GS.