Last year was a total failure for my tomatoes and tomatillos and just about everything else I planted. Whiteflies were set in the garden pretty well. I planted a lot of jicamas which were resistant against the whiteflies and aphids and doing this has purged my garden of them . The start of this year, I harvested my jicamas and went back to planting tomatoes and a few tomatillos, which are doing very well. Tomatillos planted in January have been ready to pick in four months. I have two plants in a 25 gallon container that has given me over a hundred fruits. I guess with the warm weather coming, it should be a good time to plant tomatillos in the northern hemisphere. I planted the large green variety, but they only grew to about golf ball size. But they are tasty and I have made some great chile verde with them.
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