Gardening: Edible Plants : How to Grow Tomatillos

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Growing tomatillos is very similar to growing tomatoes, as a cage or trellis is required for the vine to climb, they are started by the seed in warm soil, and they thrive in full, hot sun. Grow a tomatillo vine to use in cooking with helpful advice from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening.

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The correct pronunciation is "TOE-mah-teeyoh", not "TOHM-ah-teeyoh".

Tomatillos are actually related to the gooseberry.

Wel, actually they are both nightshades in the Solanceae Family. What you mean is they're not in the same Genus let alone Species. That being said, for being an EHOW video on growing Tomatillos, this is definately not that helpful-like most of the other EHOW videos out there.

vine?

@golyg I can assure you that the bee's did not find another tomatillo plant because I live miles away from my neighbors and I know they don't have tomatillo's. Like I said, either the expert is wrong or it cross pollinated with my heirloom tomato plants. I live in Iowa, hardly anyone grows tomatillo's around here. I did plant many more seeds in the house but only one grew so I planted it in the ground and it got massive, over 6-7 feet tall with 100's of tomatillo's on it.

@tweirup I planted one plant last year and it was huge with hundreds of flowers but never produced one fruit. I asked an expert who told me tomatillos are self sterile and need at least two preferably 3 together to yield a good crop. Probably the bees or other insects on your tamatillos were at some point on another persons tomatillos and you got lucky. In the future plant at least two and you don't need luck.

@golyg I actually only have one tomatillo plant this year and there are 100's of tomatillo's on it, so I don't think that is correct unless they cross pollinated with my tomato plants.

@ducktapedude43 Good for you. i planted one last year and had no fruit at all. i asked an expert and they sad plant at least 3 because the plants are self sterile

What a great way to have your tomatillos fail...

YOU MUST PLANT TWO or they won't cross pollinate and won't produce fruit

Ok everyone, start flagging all these failure "ehow" videos for "misleading title" or "mass advertising". Either youtube needs to bring back the star ratings so we can avoid watching these, or they need to regulate false titles like this.

TOM A TILL O

@eighttracks yeah, probably should remove that common misconception.

Heres a better video guys /watch?v=B87lroqZseQ&feature=PlayList&p=A6D73299454989D1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=49 tells u the facts, even how to cook them

Related to GOOSE BERRY not TOMATO they also grow like goose berry, and again, not tomato's Please do better homework

Tells you how to grow them but it should be titled how to harvest.

Why don't you actually show a tomatillo? Why don't you show what the fruit looks like? The information in this video can be found all over the 'Net in text form and this video doesn't add anything. And it is not called a "tom-a-tillo".