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Post by ottawagardener on Jan 15, 2013 10:25:01 GMT -5
I store mine in a bowl on the counter in my kitchen all touching and stuff  |
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 17, 2013 11:14:56 GMT -5
What are we looking at here? Tomatillos! This is a solid block of tomatillos. More tomatillos than you can eat or process. Amazing no? Attachments:
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Post by bunkie on Apr 18, 2013 7:50:16 GMT -5
Yes Holly, amazing!!!
We plant both purple and green tomatilloes, and enjoy eating both, but I do love the purple ones.
As Telsing said, the green ones turn yellow if left on the vine past their green stage. I believe they become sweeter with the yellowing. Ours tend to be rather bushy, in a skinny sort of way, and tall.
At market, we'd have a plate put out for taste testing. Once customers tasted them, they came back for more.
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Post by ottawagardener on Apr 18, 2013 17:02:59 GMT -5
Are these self seeded Holly?
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Post by khoomeizhi on Apr 18, 2013 20:29:11 GMT -5
been enjoying watching the two perennial physalises in my collection (i should say two of the three - i'm not talking about peruviana) reappear after their first overwintering on my watch. crazy.
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 19, 2013 21:42:46 GMT -5
Ottawa, this is where I put all the vines I pulled at the end of last season.
They have wildly self seeded. I haven't posted a picture of feral tomatoes yet....
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Post by raymondo on Apr 20, 2013 0:01:50 GMT -5
First frost last night but some tomatillos had, surprisingly, ripened and dropped. I'll fling the fruit around one of the garden beds and hope for self-seeding.
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Post by macmex on May 29, 2013 12:39:06 GMT -5
They will easily self seed. I grew Verde Puebla last year. I saved and processed seed. But somehow, in packaging, I mixed it with some tomato seed. After two false starts, only getting a couple tomatillo plants per planting, I looked out in my garden.... and found MANY volunteers!
We lived some years in Mexico; five out in the hills of Puebla. There, tomatillos were traditionally grown with the corn. If someone wanted tomatillos to grow in their field they simply scattered some fruit in the fall. The next spring they had lots of plants.
Another great thing about the tomatillo is that bees favor them for their nectar!
George
Tahlequah, OK
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Post by 12540dumont on May 29, 2013 14:01:48 GMT -5
Yes, they are loaded with bumblers.
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Post by hortusbrambonii on May 29, 2013 14:58:40 GMT -5
I have a lot of tomatillo volunteers, even though they look not very healthy (a bit yellow-ish in the middle of the leaves from extreme low temperatures for may here) which is good, the seeds I started inside happened to have an accident... (A tray with tomato, TPS and physalis seedlings fell to the ground and what wasn't lost is unidentified now... )
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Post by steev on May 30, 2013 0:51:52 GMT -5
I have one very robust volunteer tomatillo. Those I've transplanted are burgeoning. Really not a fussy plant, where I garden. I expect they will soon be a self-seeded "weed". Yummers, I figure.
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Post by 12540dumont on May 31, 2013 0:06:40 GMT -5
Hortus, last year when I fertilized the TPS with fish emulsion...one cat jumped up onto the tray and the whole thing came down into the bottom of the sprout house. What a mess. I saved what I could. I still don't know what I have. Joseph kindly sent me a few more TPS, but everything out in TPS row is a jumble.
That's farming. I very carefully put one seed per hole in a tray. I very carefully take notes and plant them in rows with stakes and make a map...and then chaos happens. Steev's butterfly flaps its wings, and wild pigs storm the farm uprooting and transplanting.
Leo says they are still potatoes even if I don't know what they are. Although his sense of order is offended.
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Post by steev on May 31, 2013 10:25:49 GMT -5
Uncertainty happens. Of the 200+ varieties I started this year, I've found some squash with no number tag and some corn with a number tag, but no corresponding entry in the log. I may solve these puzzles, or not.
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Post by allyh on Jun 16, 2013 2:14:54 GMT -5
I have a couple of questions. Do purple tomatillos turn purple as they ripen or is it obvious they are going to be purple from the start? I grew some supposedly purple ones a couple of years ago, and I was waiting for them to turn purple until they turned yellow and fell off the plant. The seed company had obviously got the wrong seeds in the packet and I've never bothered to buy purple ones again since.
The second question is more about eating them. In a cookbook I was looking at recently it said to "wash the tomatillos 5 to 10 times in hot water until there is no foam in the water coming from them, otherwise they will be bitter". I never did this with the tomatillos I had - does anyone else wash them in hot water first, and does it make a noticeable difference to the taste? |
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Post by raymondo on Jun 16, 2013 17:55:48 GMT -5
By no means a tomatillo expert, I've never washed them. I can't say that I've ever noticed any bitterness either. Hmm...perhaps I'm not growing tomatillos!
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