Heirloom Tomatillo Verde Plants

If you love Mexican food or just want to try something different this year, grow your own heirloom tomatillo verde tomatoes. One of my favorites, for cooking, making fresh salsa and using in a variety of dishes, tomatillos are sometimes hard to find in the grocery store and when you can find them, their season is very short.

Tomatillo PlantsQuick Facts About Heirloom Tomatillo:
  • The tomatillo is native to Mexico where it has been grown as a food crop for hundreds of years.
  • As a traditional part of Mexican cooking, tomatillos are found in stews, moles, and salsas. In Mexico, the tomatillo is known as tomato verde.  Try our Salsa Verde Summer Squash recipe for a fast and easy way to spice up summer squash.
  • Tomatillos are bushy, spreading plants that may grow to a height of 3 to 4 feet with a similar spread. Plants are indeterminate so they keep flowering and bearing fruit until killed by frost. The plant is usually sprawling and needs support.
Last season, our tomatillo plants just kept producing, crop after crop, well into early fall. Plants several plants this season, and will have more than enough to make and can your own salsa, or to give away to friends and family.

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Posted by Farm Fresh Living at 2/9/2011 4:51 PM
Categories: Organic Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
Tags: tomato heirloom plants tomatillo
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