Growing Tomatillos Start to Finish

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Have you ever tried growing tomatillos? Often used as part of salsa or Mexican cuisine, this relative of the cape gooseberry is a popular fruit. But what are tomatillos, really? The Mexican husk tomato, sometimes called jamberry but more commonly called tomatillo, is a strange little plant. Its fruit grows within a natural papery lantern-like husk. Once ripe, the husk splits open and the fruit of your labor is ready to use. While most tomatillo varieties have origins in Mexico, these fruits are common throughout the Americas in the wild. There are two species, Physalis ixocarpa and Physalis philadelphica, but there’s many cultivars. The greenish or purple tomatillo fruit is used in an ever-increasing number of dishes, not to mention the salsa verde we all love. Let’s talk about all of the requirements for growing tomatillos so that you can enjoy them yourself! Learn More: Growing Tomatillos: Enjoy Salsa Verde All Summer Long Keep Growing, Kevin Epic Soil Starter I've partnered with Garden Maker Naturals to formulate a custom organic fertilizer designed to take standard raised bed soil to the next level. I use it in all of my beds and containers. Order your Epic Soil Starter now. Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back. Today we're going to talk about the Tomatio. I bet you
0:08.0	thought I was going to say tomato, didn't you? No, we are talking about the Tomatio. So this is used really often in salsa, me living down here in San Diego,
0:16.5	Tomatio salsa, one of my favorite salsa, or just Mexican cuisine in general.
0:20.9	It is a relative of the Cape Gooseberry. Bet you didn't know that.
0:26.8	So what are Tomatios and how do we grow them?
0:29.5	The Mexican husk tomato is one of the more official names for it. It's kind of a strange little plant.
0:35.7	Its fruit grows within a natural papery lantern-like husk and then once it's ripe the husk will split open and the
0:45.2	literal fruit of your labor is ready to use and so Tomatio varieties most of them
0:51.2	did have their origins in Mexico, but they're common throughout the
0:54.1	Americas in the wild. The two main species here are going to be Faisales Ixicarpa
1:00.0	and Faisales Philadelphia, but there are many, many, many cultivars of our humble
1:07.1	Tomatio.
1:08.8	So let's go ahead and talk about a quick care guide for the Tomatio.
1:14.0	First of all, what are some of the types?
1:16.0	Like I already talked about, you've got the Faisales Iksocarpa and the Faisales Philadelphia,
1:20.0	and here are some interesting varieties of each.
1:23.0	Most of these are categorized by their color when ripe.
1:26.0	So you've got a green Tomatio,
1:28.0	Toma Verde, probably the most popular there.
1:30.0	You also have Gigante, Mil Tomomate, Rio Grande Verde and Green Organic.
1:35.8	Those are some interesting varieties.
1:37.2	Again, as always, you can just go to the podcast description or Epic Gardening.com
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