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  • From: "Margaret" <booldawgs AT cavenet.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomatillo Answers :)
  • Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:53:12 -0700

Try Baker's purple tomatillo seeds. The plant is beautiful enough to sell
for a hanging pot and the tomatilloes are a little sweeter but can be picked
while still hard for tart salsa.
Margaret

----- Original Message -----
From: Old Timin [mailto:oldtimin AT williams-net.com]
Sent: 10/5/2005 8:25:14 PM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomatillo Answers :)

> Toni:I am wondering if any of you know of a particular strain of them
> (tomatillos)that
> have larger fruits than others?
>
> Oldtimin: I have gotten my tomatillos from a greenhouse the previous two
> years. This year I bought seed from Baker Creek. It was the same variety,
> Toma Verde, as I bought from the greenhouse. The seed from Baker Creek
> produced plants twice as big, produced twice as much, and the fruit were
> much larger, bigger than the grocery store offers even. My sales of them
> have gone up every year and I hope none of the other vendors jump on them
> at
> my local markets,lol.
>
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