Tomatillos are unique tasty fruits which originate from Mexico and Central America and their tart fruits are often found in ...

Tomatillos are an annual plant grown and harvested throughout the summer and early fall. They’re planted throughout the ...

Every growing season, I like to grow one or two plants that I have never grown before. It might be a vegetable or an ornamental plant, but each year I learn new things about gardening simply by ...

Tomatillos are an annual plant grown and harvested throughout the summer and early fall. They’re planted throughout the warmer months and harvested before the earliest autumn frost, about 60 to ...

A reader was told by a friend that the tomatillo plant repels flies, and wonders if that's true. While the sharp-sweet fruits of the tomatillo (Physalis ixocarpa) are essential to Mexican cuisine ...

Two tiny tomatillo fossils have kicked the origin of nightshade plants back to the age of dinosaurs. The fossils, pressed into 52-million-year-old rock, suggest that the nightshade family ...

Only the fruit of the tomatillo is edible; the rest of the plant is poisonous. Tomatillos bear nickel-size yellowish flowers that produce a husked fruit. Tomatillos are self-sterile: To produce ...

As the tomatillo plant grows, it forms a light brown husk that breaks off when it ripens, although they are found in a variety of colors, like yellow, green, and purple. They're commonly used in ...

Kansas University researchers have discovered 14 new compounds in a wild plant that are showing anti-cancer properties in preliminary tests. The wild tomatillo, whose formal scientific name is ...

And can I grow them in Oklahoma? Jan, Tulsa A: Tomatillos are included in the Nightshade family of plants which also includes tomatoes, peppers and eggplant but it is not interchangeable ...