MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers Nursery and Herb Education Centre is now closed for orders from 16 December 2025 until mid-January 2026 while I take a short festive break.
Thank you for your continued support of my small, home-based nursery throughout the past year. I look forward to helping you grow plants for your kitchen, garden, and herbal home remedies cupboard when I reopen in the new year.
Wishing you a peaceful and nourishing festive season.
Minette
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Tomatillo – Geodes Husk Tomato
$7.50
Tomatillo ‘Geodes’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a tender annual in the Solanaceae family. It prefers full sun and fertile, free-draining soil and is frost-tender in New Zealand. It grows to about 1–1.2 m tall and wide, producing ornamental papery husks with sweet-tart fruits. Mainly used as a culinary crop for fresh eating, roasting and preserves, and as an ornamental/pollinator plant.
Tomatillo ‘Geodes’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a distinctive garden variety appreciated for its colourful and ornamental fruiting lanterns and sweet-tart flavour. Plants are vigorous and sprawling, producing papery husks that enclose attractive fruits ideal for fresh eating, roasting, and use in preserves or salsas. The combination of decorative husks and useful fruit makes ‘Geodes’ equally at home in edible borders, mixed beds and containers. As with all tomatillos, plant at least two cultivars for reliable pollination and best yields; grow in full sun with fertile, well-drained soil and protect from frost in New Zealand.
