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 – Puebla Husk Tomato
$7.50
Tomatillo ‘Puebla’ (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. Plants grow to about 1–1.2 m tall and wide, producing firm, tangy green fruits enclosed in papery husks. Mainly used as a culinary crop for salsas, roasting and preserving; also decorative in the garden and attractive to pollinators.
Tomatillo ‘Puebla’ (Physalis ixocarpa) is a dependable, traditional Mexican cultivar prized for producing plentiful, firm green husks ideal for classic salsa verde and cooking. Plants form vigorous, sprawling bushes that set abundant fruit inside papery lanterns; the fruits are typically firm and tangy, holding up well to roasting and preserving. Like other tomatillos it produces small yellow flowers with purple throats that attract bees, and crops best when grown in full sun with fertile, free-draining soil and warmth through the season. Tomatillos are self-incompatible — plant two or more cultivars for reliable pollination and the heaviest yields. In New Zealand they are frost-tender and are usually grown as a summer annual or protected in cooler districts.
