Every growing season, I like to grow one or two plants that I have never grown before. It might be a vegetable or an ornamental plant, but each year I learn new things about gardening simply by ...

An easy-to-grow plant where summers are reasonably warm, say zone six and above. Suitable climates include the southern half ...

Two tiny tomatillo fossils have kicked the origin of nightshade plants back to the age of dinosaurs. The fossils, pressed into 52-million-year-old rock, suggest that the nightshade family originated ...

Long before the tomato achieved star status in the vegetable gardening world, its cousin in the nightshade family, the tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica), was a staple for the people of Mexico and ...

The tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica syn. P. ixocarpa), aka the husk tomato or Mexican tomato, is easy to grow in central Ohio. Along with tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, tomatillos are a member of ...

Name the vegetable. What looks like a baby tomato in size and shape, does not turn red when mature and is clothed with a thin papery husk? It is the tomatillo. Although the vegetable has the name for ...