Tomatillo Includes tips for selection, storage, and preparation. Aggie Horticulture is a registered trademark of Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M University. It provides resources related to gardening, landscaping, commercial horticulture, and home lawns and gardens. It now grows everywhere in the Western Hemisphere and is common in Texas gardens. The husk tomato plant produces an edible fruit enclosed in a thick husk. The husk is brown and the fruit yellowish when it is ripe. The plants will grow to a height of three to four feet.Culture The husk tomato has the same cultural requirements as the tomato: fertile soil, ample soil moisture and a long, warm growing season. Plant after all danger of frost in full sunlight. Space plants about 18 inches apart in rows three feet apart. Mature fruit are produced in about 120 days.

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