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

Hello Mark
I am in Faisalabad, Pakistan. I am also growing some vegitables in car tyres
on my house roof. I want to see your tunnels, garden and fruits.

Thanks & Best regards.


Anjum Sharif
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark <korney19@adelphia.net>
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: Tomatillos - lots & lots of blooms, lots of bees, no fruit.


> I'm in Buffalo, NY (6a) and am growing tomatillos for the first time
>this year. I also started them from seed late March. I transplanted them
>(2 plants) into a 4 gallon square bucket (75 cents from a local hardware
>co.), both plants in the same bucket. I have harvested hundreds so far
>and they are still growing & blooming. the bucket is only about 9x9
>inches, just a bit over a foot deep. I drilled about 18 holes thru the
>bottom & lowest portion of all the sides, surrounded the bucket with a 5
>foot tall cage I made from concrete reinforcement grid (about 20"
>diameter assembled), and use a very simple drip irrigation system I
>designed (the entire garden is small, about 100 square feet total with
>probably over a hundred plants.) I sprinkle fertilize them with a
>mixture of SeaPlus liquid fish about every 3 weeks. Most of the fruits
>had husks between golf ball & tennis ball size (diameter). Some fruits
>busted thru the husks, while some never completely filled them. While I
>don't have any close-up pics of the actual fruits, I did upload some
>pics of the actual plant(s) & cage to my 'puter a couple days ago as
>evidence of fruits & blooms; also of the entire garden and pepper
>tunnel. if anyone wants to see, I can e-mail them.
>
>Mark
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pac1@eskimo.com [p*@eskimo.com]On Behalf Of Patrick
>> Callahan
>> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 11:23 PM
>> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
>> Subject: Tomatillos - lots & lots of blooms, lots of bees, no fruit.
>>
>>
>> I'm growing Tomatillos in New-England.  I have two plants, one is
>> unsupported and has a several fruits on it which are very
>> small at this
>> point. about the size of a large pea.  The other, was grown all summer
>> in a tomato cage. its about 4 feet high, with extensive
>> branches (out to
>> about 6 feet. )  It has hundreds of blossoms,(the bees love it) but no
>> fruit yet.
>> Was it just too wet and cold this summer?
>>
>> -Pat
>>
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