Thread: blacktomatillos

On Sep 17, 1:51Â*am, bulka <working.artists.work...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Oops. What meant to say is that I've never seen them black, until
this year when they are in my garden for the first time. Just the
part that breaks through the paper. Tremendous. Almost sweet.

Got a black tom, yellow apple, mint salsa coming together in the
fridge. Some little peppers I wasn't prepared for. Yow.

M

bulka <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 17, 1:51 am, bulka <working.artists.work...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ?
>
> Oops. What meant to say is that I've never seen them black, until
> this year when they are in my garden for the first time. Just the
> part that breaks through the paper. Tremendous. Almost sweet.
>
> Got a black tom, yellow apple, mint salsa coming together in the
> fridge. Some little peppers I wasn't prepared for. Yow.
>
> M

Have you ever seen the purple ones? Smaller, very dark, hard to find in
markets, better flavor than the green ones. However the green ones do get
black streaks sometimes.

MartyB

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:59:40 -0500, "Nunya Bidnits"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>However the green ones do get
>black streaks sometimes.

That's interesting! I was guessing that frost did it.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Sep 17, 10:11*pm, sf <sf.use...@geemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:59:40 -0500, "Nunya Bidnits"
>
> <nunyabidn...@eternal-september.invalid> wrote:
> >However the green ones do get
> >black streaks sometimes.
>
> That's interesting! *I was guessing that frost did it.
>
> --
> I love cooking with wine.
> Sometimes I even put it in the food.

No, not frost yet. I think it is just normal ripening that we don't
see at the stores.

bulka <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 17, 10:11pm, sf <sf.use...@geemail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:59:40 -0500, "Nunya Bidnits"
>>
>> <nunyabidn...@eternal-september.invalid> wrote:
>>> However the green ones do get
>>> black streaks sometimes.
>>
>> That's interesting! I was guessing that frost did it.
>>
>> --
>> I love cooking with wine.
>> Sometimes I even put it in the food.
>
> No, not frost yet. I think it is just normal ripening that we don't
> see at the stores.

Make sure they don't have little worms inside, or a pinhole in the fruit.
There's a fly of some sort that lays eggs in the tomatillo flowers which
then form fruit around the egg. The pupae hatches and eats its way out.

That's the biggest pest they have if you grow your own and until you know to
watch for it, the little bastards will sneak up on you.

MartyB in KC