Tomatillos anyone?

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Permalink Reply by Linda G. on February 11, 2009 at 5:00pm

I havent grown them but a friend of mine does and they come back every year for her (we are in south west Johnson county) and she give them away by the billions! Good luck, they sure make good salsa verde.

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Permalink Reply by Tammy Sheehan on February 11, 2009 at 7:56pm

Linda,
Thanks!! I bought one yesterday at the store and chopped it up with a tomato and some dehydrated jalepenos and fresh garlic. It was a great quick salsa on grilled hamburgers, and I realized the tomatillos added a freshness that would be great in salsas and even gazpacho in the summer. BTW, I freeze gazpacho in quart bags and in the winter use it mixed with homemade canned tomato sauce for a base for Manhattan style clam/fish chowder. The tomatillos will add something new to my old recipes.

I can't wait to start some seedlings - it sounds like maybe they grow like a perrenial and you don't have to replant them(?)

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Permalink Reply by Linda G. on February 11, 2009 at 8:09pm

Gazpacho sounds good. I think your tomatillos will do great here, good luck

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Permalink Reply by joyce on February 12, 2009 at 6:04am

I live in Ct. where the weather is a lot colder than where you are. I grew some tomatillos (pineapple) last year and had hundreds of them if not more. This year I bought the purple kind and can't wait to try those too. BTW the pineapple tomatillos were good, but really small and didn't know what to do with them except for fresh eating. They do have a pineapple suttle taste to them. Didn't know that they come back again the next year. Good thing to remember, for placement of the next batch I will be growing.
joyce

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Permalink Reply by Cindy on February 14, 2009 at 8:45am

I planted one 2 years ago...it grew much like tomato plants...plant got big, husks got big, but inside the husk, the tomatillo never got very big. There were LOTS of them, though. So, I won't plant again til I know what I did wrong! Maybe it wasn't hot enough, long enough??? I had it planted right in the row with the tomatoes, and in a cage.

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Permalink Reply by Tammy Sheehan on February 15, 2009 at 9:43am

Cindy,
After seeing your reply, I did some reading on the internet. One source says you need TWO tomitillo plants because they are "self-incompatible". Perhaps someone else has an idea on this. I was just going to plant one, but now it looks like i'm going to try at least two together and will see how they do . . .

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Permalink Reply by kctomato on February 17, 2009 at 2:06pm

There are some varieties of tomatillos now that get larger. I think Tomato growers Supply carries one.

I would call them a weed as they can reseed easily.

They grow fine here.

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