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Litchi tomato (Sticky Nightshade)
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Sticky Nightshade "Litchi" - Solanum sisymbiifolium.
Exotic "hedgehog" in your garden: prickly on the outside, but sweet on the inside!
This unique decorative vegetable plant originates from South America. It looks like a fantasy hybrid: potato-like flowers, carved leaves resembling watermelon, and stems covered in thorns like a true rose.
Characteristics: a powerful plant, up to 150 cm tall. The entire bush (trunk, branches, leaves, and even fruit calyxes) is armed with needles.
Fruits are the size of a large cherry (up to 1 cm in diameter), becoming bright red when ripe.
The taste is unusual: a refreshing sweet-and-sour mix, reminiscent of tomato, cherry, and physalis combined, but juicier.
Warning: only fully ripe (red) fruits are edible! Unripe berries (green or yellow) contain solanine and are toxic.
Culinary use: you can cook "Litchi" just like ordinary tomatoes: salads, sauces, juices, and canning. But gourmets recommend eating it fresh – straight from the bush (careful, thorns!).
Agrotechnics.
Mid-season variety. Grown via seedlings (sow in late winter - March, transplant outdoors in May, same as tomatoes).
The plant is surprisingly unpretentious: it is more cold-resistant than a regular tomato and drought-tolerant. Loves sun and loose (sandy) soils, but tolerates partial shade.
Important: work with the plant wearing thick gloves. By the way, the Litchi Tomato is a favourite treat of the Colorado potato beetle, so it can be used as a "trap crop" to distract the pest from your potatoes.
Exotic "hedgehog" in your garden: prickly on the outside, but sweet on the inside!
This unique decorative vegetable plant originates from South America. It looks like a fantasy hybrid: potato-like flowers, carved leaves resembling watermelon, and stems covered in thorns like a true rose.
Characteristics: a powerful plant, up to 150 cm tall. The entire bush (trunk, branches, leaves, and even fruit calyxes) is armed with needles.
Fruits are the size of a large cherry (up to 1 cm in diameter), becoming bright red when ripe.
The taste is unusual: a refreshing sweet-and-sour mix, reminiscent of tomato, cherry, and physalis combined, but juicier.
Warning: only fully ripe (red) fruits are edible! Unripe berries (green or yellow) contain solanine and are toxic.
Culinary use: you can cook "Litchi" just like ordinary tomatoes: salads, sauces, juices, and canning. But gourmets recommend eating it fresh – straight from the bush (careful, thorns!).
Agrotechnics.
Mid-season variety. Grown via seedlings (sow in late winter - March, transplant outdoors in May, same as tomatoes).
The plant is surprisingly unpretentious: it is more cold-resistant than a regular tomato and drought-tolerant. Loves sun and loose (sandy) soils, but tolerates partial shade.
Important: work with the plant wearing thick gloves. By the way, the Litchi Tomato is a favourite treat of the Colorado potato beetle, so it can be used as a "trap crop" to distract the pest from your potatoes.
