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Re: ??husk tomato

>I grew 2 purple tomatillo plants in 2 different locales last year.
>Beautiful plants, lots of flowers but no tomatillos. They did have
>some small empty little husks. Other types of tomatoes, eggplant,
>peppers, etc. fruited, but not them. What happened?
>The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof!..

Sounds like the purple ones are not self-fruitful.  I've grown only the
green kind, and they got--and required--absolutely no work on my part.

If you feel like giving the purples another shot in '97, try putting two
about 3 feet apart and see if they take care of one another.  If all your
tom relatives had failed last time, I'd suggest the paucity of bees as the
culprit.  Bee pops. are way, way down in the United States in the last few
years due to Varroa mites and tracheal mites.  (Yes, there are mites so tiny
they live in the *throats* of honey bees.)  But since your other plants did
set fruit, beelack is not the tomatillos' problem.

--Janet
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Janet Wintermute             jwintermute@ids2.idsonline.com
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