Re: tomatillos
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- Subject: Re: tomatillos
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- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:43:21 -0800
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These were definitely tomatillos. The plants were upright, not sprawling
like ground cherries. They were bred by Tim Peters while he worked at
Territorial Seeds.
I've also grown ground cherries & love them. Wish I could count on them
every year to give me a bumper crop but on the west coast, summers are iffy.
Arzeena
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----- Original Message -----
From: Brook Elliott <brookbarb@juno.com>
To: <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: tomatillos
>
>
> > I've grown a couple of other strains - Indian & Mexican strain that
> > both
> > Territorial and West Coast Seeds used to carry. The fruit turn
> > yellow and
> > sweet when ripe,<
>
> Are you sure these were tomatillos, and not ground cherries---which look
> almost the same?
>
> Ground cherries are a sweet fruit, used a lot in colonial days; eaten
> fresh, or used for preserves and jams.
>
>
> Brook
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