Vegetables · Warm
Tomatillo
Solanaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 60 cm
- USDA zones
- 5a–11a
- Frost-sensitive
- yes
- Growth duration
- 16 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:raised-bed mixsandy
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:very free-draining
Seed & start
Pre-culture recommended
Start indoors / cold frame first, transplant into the raised bed later.
Stachi's tip
Tomatillo is tomato's Mexican cousin: green fruit in a papery husk, tart-fruity, the base for salsa verde. Heat-loving like tomato but more resistant to late blight. Plant at least 2 — tomatillos don't self-pollinate.
Sowing
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Transplanting
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-27 Phase 7 expansion
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