Tomatillo - Super Verde (Seeds)

• GMO Free
• Approx. 30 seeds/pkg.

Description

A Mexican favourite for making traditional green salsa sauce and other dishes! Grow these interesting, great tasting fruits as tomatoes but harvest them right out of the papery-like husk when it turns from green in later summer. Small green fruits are sweet and tasty. Start transplants about eight weeks before last front date. Harvest in approximately 70 days. Determinate growth pattern.

How to Grow

Sow seeds indoors about 6-8 weeks before last spring frost date - use a peat moss based growing mix for germination and growing seedlings. The temperature of the seeding mix should be 21-24 degrees Celsius for prompt germination. When seedlings are 1.75" high, transplant each into individual peat pots - reducing temperature to 15-18 degrees Celsius until planting in the garden in late May. After hardening off, transplant into well-drained organic soil 24" apart for determinate varieties and 36" apart for indeterminate varieties. Tomatoes need warmth, direct sunlight and a steady supply of water. Keep plants well-watered. Apply the water to the soil rather than showering down over the plants. Do not compost. It is also very important to keep plants evenly watered as fluctuations in available soil moisture can lead to a host of problems such as a fruit cracking or splitting, irregular fruiting and increasing the chance of blossom end rot developing. Apply a mulch of straw around plants to protect them from soil borne diseases and to help conserve soil moisture.