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  • From: "Elaine Granata" <ecgranat AT ouray.cudenver.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomatillos
  • Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:22:43 -0600

Juanita: I've read that tomatillos should NOT be grown with/near
tomatoes -- maybe that's the problem.

Elaine
Denver
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juanita Garcia" <nitag AT ev1.net>
To: "Market Farming Newsletter" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomatillos


> Thanks for the reply. Per your questions and comments:
>
> We have extremely alkaline soil and water - the chicken litter and bat
> guano bring us down to almost a sweet soil, but tomatillos are supposed
> to grow like weeds around here.
>
> I have treated them like tomatoes (feeding heavily, foliar watering,
> etc), but that doesn't seem to make much difference.
>
> We grow in the same beds as we have used for tomatoes; huge yield of
> tomatoes, same lousy results on the tomatillos.
>
> Can it be that I'm treating them too well? They are related to weeds
> after all, so maybe I need to be a little more "tough love" with them??
>
> Juanita Garcia
>
>
>
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