Re: Tomatillos - lots & lots of blooms, lots of bees, no fruit.

Wow!  Funny you should bring this up today.  I was just sitting in my garden 
(in Central PA) wondering at my tomatillo experiment today.  I planted her 
from seed in my basement in March.  She had a difficult childhood including 
being almost decapitated by a marauding feline, nearly drowned form a fall in 
the toilet (in May while under the grow light hanging from the shower curtain 
rod) and splitting in the middle from lack of support in the garden in July.  
But today, as my tomato plants wither and die (Sunday was Picalilli day) the 
tomatillo is still flowering, beautiful & strong.  Also quite large and 
attractive to bees as is yours.  

She is having only slightly better luck with actual fruit production than 
yours.  For most of the summer, the little paper "sacks" would form, but 
never develop anything inside & finally fall off.  However, in the last 
several weeks there is finally something hard and growing inside the few that 
are left.  Definitely larger than a pea (but how would I know since I can't 
seem to even sprout those guys) but still smaller than a golf ball. I am 
hopeful, but it is getting colder by the minute around here so they may not 
make it to adulthood.

I have truly enjoyed this plant, it's size, it's flowers, its mystery.  I 
plan to try again next year & see what happens!
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