horselover wrote:
Matthew Reed wrote:

When they are fully ripe, they fall off. I like to pick them a
little before that. Pick them when the paper husk cracks and the
fruit inside is starting to yellow a little (but it'll still be
green, not really yellow) and you'll be pretty close.

I used mixed jalapeno and serrano peppers when I made it.

Bob


They have a ways to go I'd guess. The husks are quite large, and only
half full. I think I have a bumper tomatillo crop heading my way

Do tomatillos take up a lot of room in a garden? I bought some seeds
this past spring and noted that the package says to plant them in the
fall. I have a very small yard (35'x 35') so I don't have a lot of space
to devote to any one thing. But given that I can't buy them here (I live
in France) my only way to get them is grow them myself. I was thinking
of trying them in large pots. I currently have two pots with parsnips
growing in them and they seem to be doing well. (Parsnips are also very
hard to find here.)


They grow about like large sprawling tomato plants. You need more than
one tomatillo plant for pollination. Fall sounds like the worst
possible time to plant them. I plant them indoors early in the spring,
but you can also direct-sow them when the soil starts to warm.

Bob