Possible Clues:

• Salsa verde ingredient
• Closed in a twinkling a drawer for small fruit
• As well to enlist old lady to cultivate fruit
• It's silly to omit all fruit
• Plant of nightshade family native to Mexico
• To a degree, cultivate old fruit in Mexico
• Mother goes in to cultivate old fruit
• Ingredient in green salsa
• Plant which has to work in red
• Berry much used in Mexican cooking