How close is too close to grow a tomato plant near a tomatillo plant ?
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How Do I Prevent Tomatoes from Cross-pollinating? - check out this link, and I now see that unless a tomato plant has an "exerted stigma" then it may only need a 20-25 foot seperation barrier.
I plan to plant my tomato plants and tomatillo plants about 15 feet apart with some heavy pollinating plants inbetween. Thanks.
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Me again. I've just done a search on the internet which says that although tomatillo and tomato are in the same family they do not share the same genus or species. Apparently they will only cross-pollinate if they are of the same genus or species not just because they are in the same family. Check out this link
McDowell County�Center: Cross Pollinating Crops
Hope this helpsAKA Angie
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Some of the heritage type toms cross pollinate because the stigma sticks out of the tube of petals surrounding it. However, having tried to cross pollinate tomatoes deliberately I can say it's jolly hard to do with the modern ones. I 'did' about a dozen flowers last year and only managed to get one to take.Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring
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Is the Tomatillo not more closely related to Cape Gooseberry (Physallis) than the Tomato (Solanum)??????
Should be interesting for me as I'm growing tomatoes,cape gooseberries and tomatillo's this year!My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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