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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: thegridgardener on March 28, 2009, 17:28:08

Title: Have you ever grown Tomatillos
Post by: thegridgardener on March 28, 2009, 17:28:08
Have you ever grown Tomatillos? What variety did you grow?
What were your results?
Title: Re: Have you ever grown Tomatillos
Post by: sunloving on March 28, 2009, 18:19:31
I grew them last year, they are a bit odd, i just got a salsa kit unnamed.
They were pretty and grow like chinese gooseberries. They do taste good. Almost like a cross between a tomato and an apple. but I found it hard to judge when they were ripe.
Lots of fruit grew and fruited outside and did better than the outdoor tomatoes.
Give em a try !
x sunloving
Title: Re: Have you ever grown Tomatillos
Post by: Flighty on March 28, 2009, 18:47:08
No! What about you TGG?
Title: Re: Have you ever grown Tomatillos
Post by: cjb02 on March 28, 2009, 22:45:59
first year, 'Verde Pueblo' Tomatillo from Realseeds
Title: Re: Have you ever grown Tomatillos
Post by: Biscombe on March 31, 2009, 13:40:42
I'm not a fan of the taste, great plants though, watch out if you grow them outside they self seed everywhere!
Title: Re: Have you ever grown Tomatillos
Post by: saddad on March 31, 2009, 13:56:25
Presumably here in the UK they would germinate in a nice warm snap and then get killed by a late(r) frost...  :-\
Title: Re: Have you ever grown Tomatillos
Post by: cleo on March 31, 2009, 18:41:17
Yes I have grown them but what  do I know??
Title: Re: Have you ever grown Tomatillos
Post by: amphibian on March 31, 2009, 22:08:29
Quote from: saddad on March 31, 2009, 13:56:25
Presumably here in the UK they would germinate in a nice warm snap and then get killed by a late(r) frost...  :-\

I have some unknown member of the Physalis genus that grow as a weed on my plot.
Title: Re: Have you ever grown Tomatillos
Post by: Cuke on April 01, 2009, 14:00:20
I grew a couple of plants last year (no idea what variety though) and while they grew and cropped well on an exposed allotment we didn't like the taste of them much and never got round to making any salsa out of them so they proved to much not much more than an interesting experiment lol :)
Title: Re: Have you ever grown Tomatillos
Post by: raisedbedted on April 01, 2009, 16:56:10
Nice big plants, interesting and easy to grow.

Fruits are vile vile vile.