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Very delicious! Although they are in the tomato family, they taste more like a sweet berry. My 2 and 5 year old boys love them. I have not had any pest/disease problems and they produced fruit past the first hard frost (while all my other tomatoes were dead).

The fruit is within a thorny husk and you do need to be careful when "popping" the fruit out.Once you learn the trick to avoiding the spikes, they are quite easy to eat. Or you can simply pop them out with a gloved hand. We believe they are definitely worth the extra effort.

Start/Plant/Grow them just as you would for regular tomatoes. They get about 5 foot tall.

Questions & Comments

Someone told me that these are actually a type of ground cherry, rather than tomatoes. Of course, like the tomato, only the berries are edible.

Mar 10th, 2015 at 4:05:33 AM PDT by

ecause the plant is in the nightshade family, and a close relative of both the tomato and potato, its fluffy white flowers resemble potato or eggplant flowers, though they are more profuse and striking. The fruit forms inside a husk like a tomatillo or ground-cherry; then, as the fruit ripens, the husk bursts open. The fruit is ripe enough to eat when it can be removed easily from the stem; if you have to pull hard, it’s not ready.

Mar 10th, 2015 at 4:50:29 AM PDT by

These sound great. How many seeds are you offering? Great auction! :)

Mar 10th, 2015 at 11:36:44 PM PDT by

10 to start with

Mar 11th, 2015 at 8:01:14 AM PDT by

10 seeds to start, and then you can save your own seeds from a ripe berry.

Mar 11th, 2015 at 4:29:41 AM PDT by

Litchi Tomato is in the Home & Garden | Gardening | Gardening Seeds & Bulbs category