My neighbor has these growing in the cracks of her yard. She gave me a few. I ate one and planted the seeds. Also I bought seeds and they are coming in. They taste so good, oddly like cake batter? So delicious. I’m buying more seeds and will grow more in fall and next spring.
i absolutely love them. I grew Miss Molly and every single day just 3 plants gave me a whole bowl of them over a few months. Next year I am going to dedicate a whole bed for them. I fill up a bowl and then watch a movie snacking on them instead of pistachios, peanuts, chips or popcorn.
Zone 9a , tried it last year, and just as plant abundance had, with sweet potatos. Last year, not a big show. Forgot about them, and rediscovered that not only had they reseeded themselves, but they spread out and blessed us with an abundance, and we had an extremely dry summer and the usual stifling heat. Using in salads etc. With appreciation.
I discovered this fruit only this year! I was shopping for seeds online and found them! So I decided to give it a go! I only just planted the first two in my garden, but I'm already excited to see them grow! This year I wanted to try some new crops and I'm glad to see these aren't too fussy 🤭 Oh! What I found amazing about these plants is that my month old seedlings already started growing flowers! I didn't expect to see those for a while!
I was wondering how your ground cherries produced last season? 👀If you don’t mind me asking, what hardiness zone are you in? Similar to you, I saw them when I was seed shopping online and bought some! ✨I’m super excited to grow and taste them for the first time!🙏
Gosh, the cherry has a slight sticky coating. great taste. I,ve been leisurely studying wild edible plants and looking for this treat for 45? Years and was removing some overgrown weeds in a mulch area and stumbled on them. Extremely enjoyed the taste!
Thank you for warning about waiting too long to harvest and having the fruit start to dehydrate and shrivel up. No other video I have watched mentioned that point. Great video.
I prefer the Thrive and Survive type crops. My first garden, a couple of months into it-I had a stroke. Left me messed up for several months unable to walk, talk or type [[typing still not great due to a different issue]] At any rate, my Dad would go out and spray some water on the garden. The beans overgrew most of it then died, the tomatoes overgrew the rest but they were all twisted and gnarly fruits-indeible. [[I blame the high power lines across that area]] so-thrive and survive is my first choice plus, if things go real South in America and one cannot get seeds? Better to have stuff that regrows itself and self-polinates when possible.
I'm growing these for the first time this year and am so excited for them to ripen to try them. Thanks for the informative video. I learned even more about this cool plant!
I planted these for the first time this year. Germination wasn’t great but otherwise easy to grow. Pest don’t bother it. Flavor is very unique almost like a pineapple and mango mixed together. When they’re not fully ripe, there’s more of a tomato taste.
I had no luck with seeds, so I bought live plants. Where I live, zone 8a, I expect volunteers. These are very easy to propagate from cuttings, and I have several in pots in a shed kept at about 50 degrees. They appear very healthy, no growth, and only need water every week or so. I am hopeful that there is a lot of root development.
@@christines2787 pretty similar growing zones I also had to make clones of mine last summer they can take a while to root from cutting but managed to get 5 or so 5 inch cuttings to root ( mind you I had so many fruit on that plant I was curious how much longer it would have taken the cuttings if I didn’t remove any fruit ps. had to make cuttings cause I was clumsy and fell on my biggest plant braking a few branches lol either way) even the big two foot branches I put in a bucket and placed in partial shade, those didn’t grow roots but was still able to harvest fruit that was already set as long as they developed past a certain stage all in all from the big branches still got hundreds of useable fruit for about 3 months which surprised me. Currently have two seedlings (gonna aim for another 3 more just need to make room waiting for this weather to finally improve so I can start movin things out) as well as a few cuttings of jostaberries that are already showing signs of flowering so fingers crossed it’s gonna be a very berried summer, between those two and my grapes lol.
I planted 3 different varieties of ground cherry recently, 12 of each: New Hanover, Aunt Molly, and a variety called Poha. 100% germination of the NH, 0 on AM, and one sprout from the Poha. I am planning on trying to overwinter a plant or two this year.
I am in zone 9b and planted these in the spring. When the first real heat wave hit, they did not survive. I was so disappointed. I am trying them again as a fall crop, so hopefully that will work!
I’m in 9b Florida, tried summer and fall and I cannot get them to sprout. I sent them to my daughter who lives in Ohio, and she grew them with a great producing crop. WTH??? I want them sooo bad.
I’m in 9a and I’ve gotten them to grow in spring but I had to move them where they only got morning sun and shade from the hot afternoon sun. The real killer for me is the pests. They put so many tiny holes in every leaf till the plants fall apart. This year I’m going to try in fall. I’ll plant them in the shade of my anger plants and hopefully the pest pressure won’t be there in the fall. I will be starting them indoors and getting them sizable before transplanting though.
Planted Tomatillo seeds 2 years ago. Guess what? The seeda were actually Ground Cherries. Now they come up each year, more and more numerous. Love that they are such prolific volunteers! I really enjoy snacking on them.
I had a rogue ground cherry show up in my lettuce bed. I think random seeds were in my lettuce packet. But I was excited to see it. Never tasted one before. 😊
Here in southeast Pennsylvania this year we have been in quite a drought. Our lawns and farms are suffering. Yet I found a few of these growing and flourishing by my shed. Not sure how they got there, but I've seen them around here on hikes as well. I can attest, they need NO watering. Since discovering them, I have started to water them a bit. But unlike my tomatoes, peppers and yes even tomatillos, these wild ground cherries not only survived a major drought but flourished. Looking forward to tasting them later on.
They grow wild around our property. We have an abundance of them. They can take over but make a good ground cover. I have been too chicken to eat them though! They are very beautiful dried too. Zone 8a.
I am peeling and eating a bowl full of these while you’re talking about them this is my favorite time of the year just got them at the farmers market unfortunately I have little to no sun I can’t grow them. Is there anyway you would recommend growing them in the house?
We have this one and they produce a lot of fruits then prune since it seems it’s dying , now dormant. First time we have this in a big pot since no more space, mango trees took over our backyard (7 of them) plus other tropical like guavas, tamarinds, sapote and etc. So all our berries, cherries, june plum and etc. are in big pots like 40-50 gallons lining them all up like soldiers. They are all doing fine flowering and fruiting except this one. My husband is teasing finally my green thumb has one that seems to be an exception as most seeds, plants are success, guess this one doesn’t like me!😂Love the fruits though, even putting them to my cooking daily besides eating. Hope to find ways to make it alive again, happy gardening everyone and God bless!🙏❤️🤗
We have 2 different Cherry Trees but the Birds eat most of them so I like the idea of the ground cherry. Maybe I'd actually get to enjoy them. I received the Kale Seeds you sent. Looking forward to planting them. Take care. God bless you.
@@annieb7919 I plan to plant them where we have a wire for beans to keep it away from our lawn. My husband's great grandson mows so I need an area he can't reach with mower. Lol I need to figure out the best time to plant them. I know we'll love it. Hugs
I've lived with multiple full size cherries in the back yard... too much of a pain IMO. I'd suggest bush cherries (romeo / juliet / etc). Our 3 year old bushes are 6' tall and bearing fruit nicely (they're a bit tarter than a sweet cherry, but also pretty high brix).
I just git my seeds in the mail from Bakers Creek and can't wait to try these!! Thankfully, I googled them for info on if they are toxic to dogs and yes they are. So I will have to keep them out of their reach.
Wow! I just learned something new. Didn’t know these existed. Next spring, I know what I’m going to add to my food forest. Thank you for sharing. Much appreciated! Could you tell me how to get the seeds? I couldn’t make out what it’s actually called in your video because I’m hard of hearing.
A common name for them is ground cherry, husk tomato, or cape gooseberry. They are quite a bit smaller than a tomatillo! The Latin name is Physalis pruinosa. I used to order seeds from a few small companies: Nichols Garden Nursery, Johnny’s Selected Seeds, and Pinetree Garden Seeds. They are all still around and they all still carry seeds for them. Good luck! ✌🏼💖
I didn't eat all my fruit 6 years ago, i've been using these old raisins to propagate new ones. Their germination time has increased with time. The first year it was week, the last time it was almost a month for germination.
Hi! Thank you for this video! I just learned today what these pretty little fruits that sprang up in my watermelon patch are! … ground cherries 🙂… now, once again I’m super excited about my first year garden at my new little farm! So… I have a question…. could you please speak to how a green house might factor in for a ground cherry crop next season? I’m about to get started on the green house build. I’m in Zone 7 (maybe 7b)…SE TN and my farm gets every minute of available sunlight every day. Literally no shade (yet). Thank you for the information! Where else do you post? 🌱🌻☮️
@Brian What you say is true, however ~ the Very Best Way to devour 'em, is while you're pickin'! In my 9 decades, I could NEVER have picked enough for both me AND a pie! I'll bet you can't pick 'em as fast as you can eat 'em! Best breakfast you'll ever know! By the way, in another comment, I tried to explain to Mr. Plant Abundance the proper way to eat ground cherries! (Giggle!) It IS true that there's no other plant easier to grow! OK, well maybe dandelions, which, of course are also edible. So ~ plant once and you'll never have to again! Like some of us, they LOVE to volunteer! HappyGroundCherryPlantin'andEatin'!
Y'know, that plant just randomly grows on my flower pot of other crops. I really thought it was pepper but my eyes fooled me, now I am growing some on my garden
Thank you Dan I have been wanting to plant some ground cherrys but a little confused about the taste are there different flavors per say or only the one. Thank you
I'm going to try and grow them for the first time this year. Since they can re-seed themselves, would they do okay in a bigger container? I wouldn't want them growing back somewhere the following year and have to take them out to grow something else.
Do they go dormant in the winter or do I need to cut them back or cover them? I have my ground cherry in a pot outside my balcony which thrive beautifully but I want to grow them next year. Help
After two or three attempts with seed from a large company I'll leave unnamed I finally got one plant to grow long enough to go into a container. Just bearing fruit now.
My house came with a nice little crop of these against the house. I always thought they were ripe when red, i tried it, and was very bitter and filled with seeds. So i just never harvested them ever or even paid them any attention. I've been living in my home for almost 8 years and Only today i did research to find what these really were. Lol. Ive been missing out on free food for years😢
For reference, these things have been surviving completely unattended in my northern ND yard for nearly a decade with nothing more than natural rainwater. Insane.
These grow wild here in the high desert with almost no rainfall and in horrible clay soil. While they are pest resistant when established. The rodents love to eat the young plants whole.
Ah, I'm in zone 4, planning to possibly grow these as a food/cash crop, got it all planned to grow them on a nice big line of cattle panel trellises along with all the other berries n such, gooseberries, pink blueberries, mullberries, and very likely gonna try the sea buckthorn berry which apparently needs a male and female plant to fruit, that fruit in which can survive all the way in zone 3!
Cape gooseberries and ground cherries are two different plants that resemble each other. These were ground cherries so he was correct in the identification :)
thats a good question and I would like to know too. I have very large farms around me that lure deer,black bear, and other animals. I am going to be planting kiwi berries next year and found out and hoping its not true that the leaves kinda smells like cat nip....I hope not. looking into this now too and wondering what these might attract and plan on how protective I will have to be with where I plant and if a structure or not
Try Johnny’s Selected Seeds, Nichols Garden Nursery, Pinetree Garden Seeds, or even Amazon. I even saw them at a small hardware & garden store once. Since they reseed themselves easily, they aren’t usually at big stores like Home Depot.
Hello, these look like a great plant to add in my garden. Im just afraid I would eat one that isn’t ripe yet, so would I have to wait until they fall from the plant to be “on the safe side” and not risk eating the fruit green (with toxins)?
Well they ARE in the nightshade family like tomatoes, probably not quite related in any way but real nightshade berries are pretty easy to spot, some of those themselves like bittersweet nightshade aren't exactly poisonous but you don't really want to eat them anyway. Other things like the chinese lantern.. those ARE POISONOUS so watch out. These I'm sure you'll find once you grow, are nice n sweet which is probably the main factor to knowing they're not poison.
I planted them for the first time and will never grow them again, did not like the after taste it left in my mouth. They are not going to waste my chickens love them. They got to be over 4 foot tall and in a 3 foot wide bed they hung over a foot on each side. A waste of growing space.
You are supposed to tell us " how to grow ground cherries " but all you have done through this entire video is " yak-yak-yak " Are you suffering from partial dementia ?????
