• Fresh Puebla Verde Tomatillo vegetables from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showing vibrant green, round, and slightly papery husks.
  • Fresh Puebla Verde Tomatillo vegetable from Hudson Valley Seed Co. with vibrant green husks and ripe, firm fruit.
  • Fresh Puebla Verde Tomatillo from Hudson Valley Seed Co., vibrant green vegetable with papery husk, ready for cooking or snacking.
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Hudson Valley Seed Co.

Puebla Verde Tomatillo

Physalis ixocarpa

Certified Organic

High yielding tart fruits essential for a salsa garden.

Tomatillos are underappreciated by American gardeners. The plants are easy to grow and yield tons of husked fruit; under normal circumstances they have a long harvest season. Chopped with onions or scallions, hot peppers, vinegar, salt, and cilantro, they make a terrific salsa verde--the green salsa commonly found at Mexican restaurants. When ripe, the fruits produced by this variety are larger and more yellowish-green than most. 

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Growing instructions
Start tomatillos 6 weeks before last frost. Transplant outdoors after threat of frost has passed. Tomatillos can be staked to make them easier to handle and take up less space in the garden. A simple 4' wooden stake or 4' section of 1" conduit will suffice per plant. (If growing several plants, stake with a basket weave as you would tomatoes, see planting instructions for tomatoes.) Simply tie the stalk to the stake as the plant grows every 6". Harvest fruits when they have filled out the husk. To use, remove the husks and rinse before proceeding with recipe.
Product Details
Days to Maturity 70 days from transplant
Days to Germination 3 to 10 days
Height at Maturity 48 inches
Sun Conditions Full Sun (8+ Hours Sun)
Planting Depth _ inch
Row Spacing 36 inches
Plant Spacing 30 inches
    Fresh Puebla Verde Tomatillo vegetables from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showing vibrant green, round, and slightly papery husks.
    Fresh Puebla Verde Tomatillo vegetable from Hudson Valley Seed Co. with vibrant green husks and ripe, firm fruit.
    Fresh Puebla Verde Tomatillo from Hudson Valley Seed Co., vibrant green vegetable with papery husk, ready for cooking or snacking.
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    Steve B.

    This is an easy plant for beginning gardeners. I understand that in it's native Mexico it grows like a weed, which is great because it gets used a lot. It is heat tolerant, and drought tolerant.

    This plant is sprawling, and produces nice sized tomatillos prodigiously. Tomatillos are a necessary ingredient for salsa verde, but they also go great in pico de gallo.

    Tomatillos are a self-seeder: plant them once and enough fruit will drop off when you aren't looking to keep it coming back year after year.

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    Ann T.

    Mostly big, mostly green, very tasty.
    I grew these in summer 2020 and they were a great variety. They are not 100% consistent in color. I noticed that some had purple stripes on the husk and fruit; these tended to be smaller than the ones that were all green. No difference in taste as far as I could tell. I'm still looking for a tart tomatillo variety.