Vegetable / Warm season
Toma Verde Tomatillo
Warm beds and large containers with at least two plants for pollination.
Tart green fruits for salsa verde and roasting.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 70
- Germination temperature
- 70-90F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 24 inches
- Row spacing
- 36 inches
- Start method
- Start indoors
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 6 weeks before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days after last frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate, consistent water while plants flower and set husks.
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil similar to tomato beds.
- Watch
- Single plants may set poorly; plant more than one tomatillo.
- salsa
- nightshade
- warm-season
- containers
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Nightshade Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Start Indoors Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: UMN starting seeds indoors