This was my second year growing tomatillos in my container garden, and while I didn't as much crop this summer as last year, I still got more than enough for us to eat.
You can buy tinned tomatillos in Mexican specialty shops, but I've never seen fresh ones for sale anywhere in the UK, so if you want them fresh, you've got to grown your own. I bought my seeds from
the organic seed company, but frankly, they were sprouting up like WEEDS this year from all the old and rotten fruit that ended up in the soil from last year. Honestly, I was pulling out plants because I had way too many!
(These are last year's plants in my garden!)So if anyone wants to grow tomatillos next year, I'm happy to give you a bunch of free seeds (in the form of not-quite ripe for eating tomatillos from my own plants). Chop em up, put them in some pots, and you'll have tomatillo plants next year. If you can start them off somewhere warm, you'll have a longer growing season. They need staking and occasional feeding with tomato feed, but that's about it.
Only catch - you've got to come to me. So meet me in Shoreditch or near Tower Bridge.
