How to grow tomatillos from seed in my annual food forest. Support the channel: www.etsy.com/shop/SiloeOliveira / suburbanhomestead Use permaculture concepts to grow your own food forest with tomatillos and other vegetables
@@suburbanhomestead Thanks. We are in Calcutta, where it is hard to come by tomatillo. Have found a gentleman who collects and grows tomatillo in South India. Trying to get some seeds from him. Fingers crossed.
This is such a strange thing that one of my favourite cooking channel is in the comments of one of my favourite growing channel talking about the guy I get my seeds from! Hariyalee seeds.
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It was my second year growing tomatillos. The first year was a fail 😢. This year I was finally able to make my favorite tomatillo salsa. So delicious!!
Do you know what went wrong that first year? I've heard that a lot of gardeners have trouble with tomatillos and I'd like to know what to watch out for when I try them this year.
@@1999somethinglegoguy I've been growing them 10 yrs in zone 5 and the only year I had trouble was the first year when I didn't know you can't grow one plant by itself because they don't self-pollinate. I have often heard that many ppl do have trouble though, so it must be a thing. Make sure you plant the stems deep, like you would with Tomatoes so that they grow strong and better resist toppling over. Sometimes I stake them like tomatoes, sometimes I let them bush and sprawl. A lot of growers tell you to plant them 3ft apart and I wonder if this prevents good pollination. I don't know. All I know is that I have never given them more than 2ft space between them, & usually it's abt 18". Fertilize them with a fertilizer intended for fruit, not roots. Plant Tone for tomatoes is my tried and true. Make sure they get LOTS of sun. They love the heat! I wish you a huge harvest. They are so delicious.
I also tried growing tomatillos for the first time this year, I'm in NE Ohio, and found them to be very easy to grow and quite hardy against pests and windy thunderstorms; even branches that are partially torn off continue to ripen existing fruit and flower(I trimmed the flowers as I wanted all the energy in the branch to go to the fruit. Tomatillos pair well with anything where you might normally use lemon or apple to brighten the flavors such as fish, pork, and many vegetables; cilantro brings out even more flavors from the tomatillos. I make my salsa verde in quart sized batches and find that the acidity level drops the longer it is stored in the fridge, so plan recipes accordingly. Have a great harvest!
roasting them is good but be careful not to over do it or they get sour, it should be a slight roast (they can't be roasted like red tomattoes which can be left until the skin is pretty much falling off). :D
I'm so glad you grew these. I was wondering how they would fair in our zone. I wondered of the taste. You solved both for me. Thank you for sharing this. I am now looking forward to growing my own. Only recently I've been a fan of salsa. Have an awesome day. Oh I was sure you were going to make a fabulous dish out of them.
YES! Thank you for sharing!!!!😃 I grew them last year for the first time and was intrigued by their growth... I called it my paper lantern tree! The fruits were AMAZING! Cross between green apple and tomatoes. I enjoyed them mostly in salads and substituted in dishes that called for celery, ie potato salad and even dinner stuffing. I enjoyed the tomatillos. This year I've started purple and green. Wish me luck!! 😊 HSTL ZONE 6
Beautiful gsrden, beautiful video, a pleasure to follow you through. I'm growing tomato like for the first time and this was helpful on what to expect. So enjoyable. Thank you.
I'm growing them for the 1st time this year - just had my first harvest - have tried them several ways - loved the salsa verde with fish!! Mine are outside, got 5 feet high before drooping with fruit - we have one week of nice weather left here in the UK, and I'm hoping to save seed from the ripest! Nobody really grows them here. Lovely video!! 😊
HI i would like to give you a recipe for green salsa with tomatillo and just roast them in a frying pan without oil and with some jalapeño peppers, onion and garlic as much as you like, and when many black spots appear in the ingredients just trow them in a blender with a small amount of water just enough for it to blend well and add some salt at your liking and done it taste great with fried food, quesadillas and tacos, hope you like taste it and enjoy it.
Excited to see you discover Tomas! There are a few must-grow-every-year plants in my garden and Tomatillos are top on the list. I personally do not like them when they get over ripe, I love when they are tart. They have such a great flavor and the plants are so easy to grow, resistant to drought, and the fruit so resistant to pests. Maybe it's because of the sticky residue under that husk? I use them in all my salsas, (red and green both), eat them with fried eggs, steak, chicken dishes and use them in soups. Especially Pasolé!! I also can some every year for winter use. I could be a little obsessed. They can be eaten raw, but something delightful and kind of indescribable happens when they are cooked. Really brings a complexity of flavor out of them. As others have mentioned here- They do not self pollinate, so always grow at least 2 plants together.
I once grew tomatillo plants from seeds I collected from the fruit, which were tropical so grew them indoors and probably too late in the year. I never got them to fruit, but did produce pretty flowers. You have inspired me to have another go, by what I have learned from my previous mistakes and now from your example, thank you.
If you pick them after they fall to the ground naturally, they will be even sweeter. I kind of think they have a cheesy- ness, but they are still yummy and intriguing. My friend who is a seed saver expert used to make fermented tomatillo salsa, which was one of the best things I've ever tasted. Thank you for the your videos.
Love love love your videos! I planted several tomatillos this year. Wow! These things are huge compared to my tomatoes. Everyone stayed too long indoors since our spring was much delayed. The tomatillos weathered this better than most. They're only just beginning to set fruit now. 🤞🤞🤞
I guess I'm spoiled growing up in Cali, Florida and Texas because when you said you weren't familiar with them....I was shook lol. Your garden looks great
So glad I had a reliable source for info! Just planted my first tomatillo, and wasnt really sure what to do with them, as mine have adventitious rooting on the stems, but most advice says not to bury deep as with tomatoes
Tomatillos are delicious homegrown. They are tart and sweet not unlike tomatoes. They propagate so easily. In my community garden they are a gift and a volunteer. If you don't get them there is a vague sense of disappointment that the volunteers didn't wanna sprout in your plot this year:)
Ground Cherries grow wild here. I like making salsa out of them. Last year was the first year I grew tomatilos in my own garden because I can get them locally grown and inexpensive in our grocery store here. They did very well. Out of three plants I got tons of fruit.
I love Tomatillos and make a pretty mean salsa Verde.😉 They have the greatest taste! I really enjoyed spending time in your garden.. 😆 Your voice has a calming effect💞☀️🐝✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
I had pretty much the same experience with tomatillos. Now I love them. Last year I discovered pineapple tomatillos, and I was shocked at how good they are! They are tiny little fruits, about the size of a cherry, and when ripe they truly do taste like pineapple. Some people even make jam from them. I would like to do that, but we eat them too fast!
Here in Brazil, it's called physalis. Many people plant in pots or in the soil. I have it here. I do a pruning in the fall because she hates cold. It costs super expensive in the supermarket. There is a native species in Brazil, called "camapu", with smaller and less yellowish and less tasty, bitter fruit, unsuitable for trade.
I love tomatillos. Unlike most things in my garden, especially tomatoes and peppers, I find that I can direct sow them and they grow prolifically. Slugs don't eat them. They will grow even with very little sun as long as it's warm out, so they go in the shadier places of my garden, unless they volunteer somewhere else, which they usually do. There are purple varieties (Coban, a Guatemalan variety, turns streaky purple and is sweeter, and smaller. Baker Creek has them).
I like tart, so tomatillos are great in my book. I make salsa for a traditional Mexican dishes. I'm going to give them a try in the garden. This is my 2nd year at growing edibles, and haven't been too lucky with tomatoes. I'm going to try cherry and tomatillos next spring and see if those do better. Thank you! 😉❤️
I'll be growing these for personal use next season.....there isn't a real market for them up north. This was the first year I have battled Colorado potato beetle on my Japanese eggplant (nightshade family) that started to hang out on my tomatoes as well. Neem oil had minor effect. Hand picking and scraping eggs was far more efficient. I'm not familiar with the tomatillo pest, but I'll get educated for next year.
My niece makes a tasty salsa verde, I tried them raw! & I love them in salads and in a grilled cheese with ham. Adds a fresh and crunchy texture. I have yet to attempt to grow them, they’re on my list!! 🌟💐💖🙏
Great video! With those tomatillos you can make some really nice chilaquiles or enchiladas verdes aside from a salsa verde. Just got some seeds to grow them here in Germany! As a Mexican life is rough abroad without chiles and tomatillos :) Muito obrigado pelo video
The ripe tomatillos grown at my local CSA taste like a mix of musky gas and a bit of sugar. They dont design their garden the way you have and most fruiting plants there suffer some kind of defect as a result of poor soil care and i was put off from tomatillos but this video gave me hope to try them again if i grow them myself in ecologically maintained soil with permaculture practices.
Wish you had shown how you use them in a dish.... Had to google them to see what they look like peeled.... Love your content - your garden looks wonderful and lush!
I love tomatillos with everything it's delicious especially in chilaquiles or in tacos it's delicious the thing is when you make salsa not to overcook them because they will become better but I'm glad yours did well mine got spider mite I have spider mite on all my stuff my eggplants my tomatoes and my tomatillos it's just horrible love your videos
I live in a cool summer climate and tomatillos remain bitter for me when I have tried them, but maybe I will try again next summer carefully choosing a variety more likely to remain sweeter, I find the plants attractive and the bees love the cheerful little yellow flowers. BTW, your music is lovely and soothing.
@@mezleona yes I realize that, however, in my climate the fruits are intensely bitter, inedible, oddly enough, their close relatives, the ground cherry, ripen just fine for me. Next year I think that I will grow one of the purple varieties.
I grew up in Suriname, and we love love the bitter eggplant you mentioned. It's sometimes available in the Netherlands. And I will try tomatillos next year. Also never heared about them in Surinam
wow you planting a lot of them! lol they grow very big, I have a problem with caterpillars. To prepare them peel them and cook them in water or roast them, you can add a bit of baking soda, they are a bit of acidic, Thw fruit is ready to be picked when the paper husk burst open.
Felicitaciones hermoso huerto y jardín amo las flores las casi tas de madera que tenes en el jardín son para los pájaros o para insectos sacas semillas de los tomatillos o compras todos los años semillas saludo desde uruguay
Awesome! I've never grown them either. I will add it to my list to try next summer. Do you rely on the rain for watering your entire garden or do you have a watering system set up?
A tomatillo plant just showed up in my garden, maybe some seed left over from a previous year. It already got some flowers, but I'm afraid it's too late in the season. Do you think it will prosper? Also, I'm another Brazilian living in Maryland, as always wondered if I could find jilo seeds around here. Any ideas, bro? Thanks and congrats for the great channel!
I noticed in your video in the fall once frost came you still had flowers on your tomatillos. I wonder if you topped them as you would a tomato plant a few weeks before frost (In shorter growing season zones) if the plant would put energy towards ripening the fruit rather than sprout new blooms? I have 8 plants this year in New England... I'll try it on 4 of them.
I tried to grow them from seed in a soilless plug and watering them from underneath. They always looked weak and I almost gave up on them and was about to toss them into the compost. I let them grow in the pots and they never looked very good. I planted them in the ground in a sunny, sandy spot and they took off. They are full of flowers. They are heirloom and I’ll be able to save the seeds. I don’t like that Japanese beetles love them as much as the bees.
Do nightshades have low germination rates? Just wondering why you prefer the plate method with them. Are there other plants you'd recommend the method for? I know that carrots and cucurbits are generally best sown in-ground. Thanks!
We're trying these for the first time this year, too. They turned yellow at the ripening stage and I naively thought this meant they had become inedible. I was too reluctant to try one, but they're still producing so maybe I still have a chance!
I didnt have any luck growing these last yr. The plants grew and flowered but never set fruit even after hand pollinating....hmmmm.....do u have 1 tip for growing them?
Try again!! They are worth it. I've been growing them for 10yrs. Love them so much. Make sure you plant them at LEAST 12" from each other and ensure they get LOTS of sun. It NEVER hurts to fertilize them either. I would bet that there may have been a problem with your soil or with the sun exposure in the spot they were growing.
It was a lovely video but its not really a growing guide/how to. I wished you talked more about their requirements (soil type, position, spacing, nutrients), how tall they got, whether they needed staking or maintenance, if you used any fertilisers and what to use if your soil is poor and any watering tips for people who do not live in your climate, what you used their fruits for, how many fruits you got per plant, how did you know when to pick the fruits. Other than that, I really loved it.
That is true. I feel there is a lot of good strict growing guides out there so in general I share my experience and thoughts and highlight what has been the main things I’ve done, not an exhaustive guide.
I planted one tomatillo this year. It grew very well even in my arid climate. The problem I discovered was that they are not self fertile! So my one plant was making lots of blooms, but no fruit was being produced. I guess as a general rule, you should plant more than one of a plant in your garden.
You are absolutely right. I found that out the hard way my first time too. 😁You must always plant more than one, side by side. Some years I have grown only 2, other years 4-6. Always had success either way. Such an easy plant to grow and perfectly suited to your arid climate. They love the heat!
No they do not. I have always left mine alone to grow wild, however they please, but I enjoy the smaller ones along with the larger. If you want less but larger fruit, you can certainly prune the branches or flowers as you would do with Tomatoes.
Fans of this channel, I love this content and his style... Can anyone suggest other channels that involve gardening or cooking? Not looking for high energy, just relaxing vibe.
