GROUND CHERRIES - PLANT Them ONCE, HARVEST FOREVER! ABUNDANT FRUIT that you Grow Like a Vegetable!
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- Latin name: Physalis pruinosa. Here is the follow-up video to this video: • WHY They Say You CAN’T...
Answering all of your questions, and also showing you how to make jam!
Ground cherries, Physalis pruinosa, are a great, easy to grow fruit to add to your vegetable garden, especially because you can grow it like a vegetable. You sow it in the spring, and you can get a great harvest in the fall! There are varieties that are perennial, but even the garden variety self seeds readily, and so is almost indistinguishable from the perennial one, because you plant it once and it grows back every year!
I would like to mention that what we call ground cherries here - their scientific name is Physalis pruinosa. They are almost the same thing as Cape Gooseberries, which are Physalis peruviana. They also look like tomatillos, but do not taste like them. Tomatillos are Physalis ixocarpa. They also look like Chinese lanterns, which have apparently been removed from the Physalis family - they are now Alkekengi officinarum. However all of the above mentioned plants are in the tomato family - Solanaceae. And, LIKE tomatoes, you should NEVER eat them when they are GREEN (or in other words - NOT RIPE). There were many many comments about people referring to them as poisonous. They are not. But if you eat them green, just like if you eat a green tomato, then, yes, they will make you sick. Any food vegetable in the tomato family, with the exception of peppers, SHOULD NEVER BE EATEN GREEN. I should add, potatoes, in the same family, if you leave them exposed to light, and the flesh starts to turn green, you will get them same problem - don't eat them if they're green.
Latin name: Physalis pruinosa - the garden variety. The hardy native varieties here in zone 5 are Physalis longifolia (Smooth ground cherry) and Physalis heterophylla (Clammy ground cherry - extremely sweet and the fruit is a dark yellow-orange colour)! 😊
Here's a comment about the name I particularly liked:
@kimers12660
Ground cherries, also known as husk cherries (Physalis pruinosa) are closely related to both cape gooseberries (P. peruviana) and tomatillos (P. ixocarpa). Cape gooseberries are larger and more tart & citrusy compared to ground cherries.
The last 30 seconds of the video, after I sign off and there’s music, those are images of witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) in bloom. This medicinal shrub blooms in the fall and the flowers can retain their colour sometimes through the winter.
Here's last year's very very short video about ground cherries, showing the plant:
• Ground cherries on chi...
Latin name: Physalis pruinosa. Here is the follow-up video to this video: th-cam.com/video/sJpjwNRx1lE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DrACOOziqQp9Uq69
Answering all of your questions, and also showing you how to make jam!
The hardy native varieties here in zone 5 are Physalis longifolia (Smooth ground cherry) and Physalis heterophylla (Clammy ground cherry - extremely sweet and the fruit is a dark yellow-orange colour)! 😊
Would these grow in zone 7? Im up north and id love some fruit like this!
@ absolutely. They would self seed easily in zone 7 too! 😊
@ Thank you!
@@isatq2133 you’re welcome!
that bee wants the sugar lol. I like to feed them half honey half sugar with some water.
I grew up with my dad telling me stories about when he was a kid, his family was extremely poor. He said some nights they only had corn parched on the wood stove and some nights they had nothing. He and his brothers would go out in the woods and find stuff to eat. Ground cherries, wild cherries, muscadines, wild grapes, etc. I really love his stories, he is 85 now and slowing down a lot. He would also tell me that they would get wild grape vines and smoke them for cigarettes, he still makes me laugh.
What a wonderful story! Thank you for sharing. I’m sure he’d love to taste a fresh ground cherry!
Here is the follow-up video to this video, if you’d like more details or if you’d like to make jam.
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❤❤some of us had it difficult ❤❤
You should make a video of your dad telling his stories to hand down to the grandkids and to keep his stories going. What a wonderful thing to still have your dad and all his stories to share.
@@kathydurbin437wonderful idea!
@@HyloWard-i6tthat’s when we learn all of the most valuable life lessons!
We planted these once in our back garden in Albany NY and now they end up in every bed thanks to the chipmunks. They are fantastic eaten right out of the wrapper or in a salsa.
@@DanielHavens that’s true. Sometimes it’s hard for me to accumulate them for jam, especially when my kid Charlie is home! They just disappear! 😊
I live near albany! And also grow ground cherries!
@@Earthmadegarden wonderful!
What do they taste like?
@@KeepItReal33a bit like a sweet pineapple
I first had this fruit in the year 2000 as a garnish in a mojito in Berlin, Germany. I asked the bartender what it was and she called it Physalis. Years later I found some ground cherry seeds in an heirloom seed magazine and bought them. I planted a couple plants and I'll tell you that they make so much fruit that you can't eat them all. Many just overwinter on the ground, reseed and they come back year after year. I get a little sick of them. Their flavor is unique and hard to describe, but they do make good jelly. Cool video.
Thank you! Your description could not be more accurate! 😊
Will ground cherries grow in the south in like zone 8?
@ absolutely. They come from the south! 😊
You had me at " mojito"!😅😅
@@Darklightflash-z8j 😊
Had never heard of ground cherries before. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching😊
Also called cape gooseberry 😊
@@marweyaismail3163 Yes. Cape gooseberries are almost the same plant. Both are physalis.
They taste WICKED good. I even like the slightly unripened ones. Very unique flavors at all different stages. Grow great even up here in Maine
@@genericalfishtycoon3853 thank you for your comment.🙂You shouldn't eat them unripe though.
Pie! Make pie!! Sugar, thickener(Mom and Grandma used flour) and a small amount of lemon zest(or not). Unique and amazing.
Wonderful! Yes! Thank you! 😋
I lived in canada for 24 years. 7 of those, in the middle of nowhere. 20 years later now, I'm coming across all this free food I had growing wild in my back yard. There were many nights, I had to go hungry. If I would have had access to the internet back then, I don't think I ever would have left for the city. I had rosehip bushes, ground cherries, wild turnip, wild garlic, buckwheat. I could have literally eaten some of the most nutritious food for free. Meh. You live and learn. Thanks for sharing and making me a bit wiser.
You are not alone. Everyone is finally beginning to wake up from about a two generation long sleep to realize that nature is abundant and can feed us all! I will continue to learn and to share what I learn until I take my last breath. Thank you for sharing! 😊
same here dude! Though I live in Ohio, what used to be rural... So much food and medicine around us. My childhood my dream was to live in the library so every question could be answered anytime I wanted. Now its at all our fingertips.
Live and learn is right! When I moved in out here I couldn't even build a fire. Well, we heated with wood for 23 years so I guess I learned a few things. How to garden and preserve food too. Now I am older it takes a little longer, but then I don't eat as much either. Mushrooms are what I really wish I knew more about. It is getting harder to do that walking.
@ thank you again! Learning keeps us all nimble! 😊 Here’s a link to our only mushroom video so far, from a few weeks ago. Turkey Tail! Easy enough to find and grow, and to prepare to eat!
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I moved back to Tennessee in 2018 and planted a garden. To my surprise I had native ground cherries pop up in my unweeded rows…brought back some memories of these gems from the 1960s as a child. I keep tilling to a minimum and have learned to quickly identify the unexpected thing I want to grow (ground cherries, maypops and some other think I don’t know the name of). This year (2024) not a single ground cherry plant emerged. Plan to order seed this year…and hopefully get a better plant.
@ this year was not the best year for ground cherries, or even the tomato family in general. They don’t always come back, but that doesn’t mean the seeds aren’t there.
Can't believe red-green is teaching me to garden
😊🧙♂️🍂
😂😂😂😂 so true
@@smik2969 thank you. He’s a Canadian icon! 😊 Honestly I’m not trying to imitate him.
Here is the follow-up video to this video, if you’d like more details or if you’d like to make jam.
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There were some of these in a pasture next to where I grew up in Texas. I never knew what they were till now, some 59 years later. Thanks for sharing.
And thank you as well Todd, for sharing!
I saw some growing South of Fort Worth back in the woods on a job site I was working on. I did not know what they were at the time. I may have to plant some in at my house.
@patrickyork2975 the ones I saw were on the north side of Dallas, right next to Addison. Like I said earlier, it was some 60 years ago, quite rural at the time.
Great memory!
Good luck Patrick!
These can come back literally after decades. They grew in my grandparent's garden which became a mowed lawn from about 1980-2000. A garden was started again there, and lo and behold, there were volunteer ground cherries!
Yes! The seeds are so tiny, that they can last and go unnoticed by foragers.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture
Are they bitter before they're ripe?
@ like tomatoes, you should not eat them when green. They have to ripen.
Love them. This was my second yr growing them. First year i planted 3 plants and then they self seeded and there were hundreds of them out there this yr. Flavor is like a tropical tomato in my opinion
Wonderful! What zone are you in?
I am very interedted in anything perennial !
I’ve got some seeds. 😊
@WillowsGreenPermaculture In the spring I would like to drive over and see all your abundance And get a few seeds!
@ that sounds great! Look forward to meeting you!
8 rue Georges marie ,Issy les Moulineaux Cédric julien France 😂 @@WillowsGreenPermaculture
They r not perennials, instead, they self seed and crop the same year, very reliable food source too
I was raised by my grandparents in NC and in the mid 1950's we had an abundance of these growing on the farm. They grew in the pastures, the garden, along the road beds and along the edges of our yard. I hadn't thought about then in many years and haven't seen any growing in over thirty years. This brought back many wonderful memories. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you Bobby, for sharing this memory. It means a lot to me that I could bring this back for you.
Many fond memories of hunting with my grandfather, picking and enjoying ground cherries…I’m 69 now myself and thankful for this posting. Thank you…
And thank you Tom, for sharing your memory! I am so glad I could bring that back for you! 😊
According to my edible plants of the Rocky’s book, the ground cherries are just smaller versions of tomatillo, all of the physalis family. The Mexican species is the larger tomatillo sold in stores. We use them in green chili. They help thicken and give a nice natural flavor. I love them. I have grown some in my gardens, but was just curious about the difference and thought I would share what I found 😊 all different varieties, cut leaf, sharp leaf, Virginia, Mexican, ivy leaf, yellow nightshade, clammy, broadleaf- all physalis, all tomatillos/ground cherries of different sizes and shaped plants.
Also just wanted to thank you for sharing your wisdom as well. I hope I haven’t insulted anyone. I just love learning about plants 🪴 ❤
Thank you for this Sarah! Yes, I’ve got the clammy ones that grow as perennials here, in addition to the garden variety (Ph. Pruinosa). Tomatillos are physalis ixocarpa. I grow and cook with them all the time. They are one of my favourite plants just by how they look and grow. They aren’t as sweet as ground cherries however, whose flavour is
Sweet and tangy, a bit like pineapple. Cooking them brings out the sweetness. That’s why a jam is so good! Here is the follow-up video to this video, if you’d like more details or if you’d like to make jam.
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@@sarahdelgado0808not at all. Thank you. Your detailed comment will be very helpful to people! Have a look at my other response for more detail.
@WillowsGreenPermaculture thank you so much. I really appreciate sharing knowledge like this. My grandmother has been gone a long time, but she knew how to forage and preserve many things. Somewhere that talent was lost and I'm doing my best to try to hand it down to the generations behind me, now in a zone 3 vs her warmer zone in west Virginia and Tennessee. The ground cherries I grew here were not the Mexican variety, but I did use them in my green chili anyway and the chili did not suffer. Amen 😀 It would be fun to find some wild ones up here in the mountains, northwest colorado. Thanks so much for putting up with me in your comments. I've really enjoyed your feedback and wisdom. I hope you and yours are so blessed and safe always.
@@sarahdelgado0808thank you Sarah! I appreciate all of your comments! I think it’s wonderful that you are reviving your grandmother’s legacy with the younger generations. It’s what they will need! And you’re doing g it in Zone 3! A real challenge! I think it’s fantastic!
Myy grammy used to make ground cherry jam. Fromu earliest memories this has always been my favorite jam. I've never, however, met anyone else that prizes this yum as much as I do.🎉
Well you found someone now!😊 It’s my favourite jam! And one of the only kinds you can decide in the spring, when you don’t have a single plant, to plant it, and in the fall make jam!!
Awwww! I had these growing and didn't realize what they were...now the cow or goat has gotten them...sniff...
lol!😊
Lovely video...I learned something new today, THANK YOU!
You’re so welcome! 😊 Thank you for sharing!
These are now my favorite fruit. They make the best preserves. Yum!!
They sure do! ❤
Thanks for the idea.
@@michaelburns9172 😊
One of my favorite fruits - Ray Delbury Sussex County NJ USA
@@raydel5732 absolutely! 😊Thank you for sharing!
Cape gooseberry in Australia.
That’s how I see them marketed in our grocery store too,here in the US.
I just planted some seeds of this last week! Also in Australia. Called cape gooseberry.
NZ too.
Ireland too.
Gooseberries are larger. The ground cherries are about half the size.
Oh! I so love these berries. My young son cannot get enough- I only wish he’d let me save enough for a jam!!
Hi Brittany! Yes, I have the same challenge as you!
Wishing doesn't work on boys.
Step up if you want something . . . ☆
@@fjb4932 nothing beats direct communication 😊
I grew up with these in Ohio. They make the best pie.
That sounds delicious! 😋
We had ground cherries in our family garden when I was a child (1950s). I loved them as a snack when we were out playing in the yard.
Thank you for sharing your memory! 😊
I was first introduced to these by my grandfather. I helped him harvest his. I was hooked! I've planted them too. They. Are. Soooo. Good! We would eat them right away!
That’s wonderful Lorraine! Thank you for sharing! 😊
Cute little cherry , Mother Nature is so intelligent ♥️
You can say that again! 😊
I use them in vegetable saute and salsa, never thought to use as jam. Great idea, ill try next year. I planted about 5 years ago, and they've come back every year since.
What you might have are tomatillos if you use them for sauteeing and salsa. Same family. I tried making jam with tomatillos, but it didn't work out haha.😊
No, I'm an experienced gardener, I know the difference and grow both. Ground cherries are wonderful in a saute...and in salsas. They add a flavor twist that is pleasing.
@@IzzySaunier that's great! I'm going to try that, thank you! I think you'll really like the ground cherry jam, then!
Wow. Yeah I see them out here, I love the plant because they look like little old school Chinese lanterns. I never knew you could eat em. Gonna go grab the seeds ASAP. Geeze, Thank you
It’s a real pleasure Miles!
Called gooseberries here in NZ. Got some in my garden right now
Thanks for sharing!
I'm from the US. I've never heard of them being called anything other than gooseberries.
@@ulyssees30y thank you for sharing! 😊
Ground cherries grow wild here, we have had them so long, ( My mommy started them years ago) I always loved taking the kids out to find them. I likened the taste to a cantalope-ish ?? They have a savory undertone ,. Dead ripe they are sweet.. I have never grown them and made jam! I will have to put that on my bucket list. The pectin level on fruits can vary year to year. The way I see i,t then you have a good syrup. Though I have done jam fixes many times. I will have to get more serious about the ground cherries. They have always been a novelty i showed to friends. I didn't like them much in the raw state, ( everyone else seems too though) but making a jam is a whole different ball game. I would have to sow them or hunt a lot offence rows to find enough for jam. Nice video! Not one I had seen on you too, my mother in law introduced me to these, she is the Mommy I speak of,
Thank you for this wonderfully detailed anecdote! Tomorrow morning (Dec26th), I will publish our next video in which I will be making ground cherry jam and giving more details about the plant. I hope it helps you! 😊
I've see those things around for years at both of the homes we've lived in and never knew they're edible. Thanks!
My pleasure!
I never knew about ground cherries. Thank you for that information.
You’re welcome! Here’s the follow-up to this video! 😊
WHY They Say You CAN’T EAT Ground Cherries (Physalis pruinosa) + HOW To Make Jam & ID Plants. Part 2
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Wait until you hear about road apples.
@@chemlearner2721 😂Just looked it up! Never heard of it! Are you referring to horse manure, the Tragically Hip album, or malicious software left lying around to be picked up? Don’t forget to check out the follow-up to this video, I guarantee nothing tragical, malicious or manury. 😊
But if you’d like more details or if you’d like to make jam, then here you go…
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I think I'm entranced. I'm an old hippie that came of age too late to technically BE a hippie...all of my friends were a few years older so I think I'm drawing from that history. All of that to say this, I could have lived in the woods and tended the verge, but did not. You are a very serene, gentle folk. This makes me want to garden.
Thank you😊 What a beautiful comment!
I'm a 45 year old Orthodox Christian Hippie. I don't think age has anything to do with it. My parents were Dead heads though lol.
@Makeloafnotwar I'm only 64, so the actual hippie movement was formed while I was in elementary school. The older kids and young adults around me were hippie-types, though. I caught on to the accouterments of their lifestyles but not their mindset. As much as I admired them, I would not become them. Our morals clashed as I grew up. But I still long for the nature and the natural that I thought the "hippie" invoked. They became land owners, permaculturist, and healers, many of their generation. They are firmly Boomers. I am technically a boomer, but being born in 1960, I sit on the cusp with a group of people who did not really fit into that generation, nor in the following generation of X'ers. I'm sure there's a name for us tweener types. 🤔🫡
Age is a state of mind. I am in the best health of my life, apart from maybe childhood.
Though I’m a few years younger than you, I have had that same feeling as yours all my life. I suppose I am an Xer, but I think apartness is a defining quality of Xers. But then again, I don’t really know. 😊I just love nature. And good music. And language.
Mulberries and ground cherries are forgotten fruits, so delicious...
That’s for sure! 😊
That bee on your shoulders is thanking you for the ground cherry flowers that come before the fruit 💖💖💖, and maybe the fruit too! I thank you for telling me.
Thank you Silent Whisper. I believe the same thing! ❤
What wonderful beings physalis are - abundant, resilient, and so polite in their little husks.
Beautiful comment! Thank you for sharing.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture in southern China their common name is - 大自然的馈赠, which literally means a gift from nature 🥰 I freeze dried some a few years ago...WOW the fruit flavor + cheetos texture...what an experience
@@GreentheGulf Wonderful! I love to learn other languages. Thank you for sharing.
I have not ever heard of these. Sounds delicious
They certainly are! 😊 I’m glad I could help you discover something new!
These are good an amish woman gave me some I came across some seeds in a seed book planted them the more yellow the better I safed the seeds for next year but they will come back makes a good cobbler .
Wonderful!
I Love ground cherries. And, you are correct, plant once! I couldn't get rid of them if I tried now. They always come up somewhere in the garden. 😊
Have you ever seen purple ground cherry? *Not* nightshade, or tomatillo - all parts of plant match physalis.
@davidmgilbreath No! Sounds lovely!
Wonderful! 😊 Thank you for sharing!
@@davidmgilbreathno I haven’t! But I’m curious! I’m going to look for them! I actually have native ground cherry now. Smooth ground cherry and clammy ground cherry. The plants are perennial and the cherry is almost orange.
@@dawnteskey3259it sure does! 😊
Used to pick these up all the time at my grandparents. They both passed on in the 80's and I honestly forgot about ground cherries until I came across this video. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Bob for sharing this memory. It means a lot to me that I can bring this back. Plus, you have the same name as my father. 🙂
I moved to Ghana to farm and these grow wild everywhere I didn’t know you could eat them so I will have to try this.
That’s wonderful Mrs Boamah! What do you grow? All the best!
They're about the best fruit I've ever tasted!
That’s for sure! 😊
Known as Cape Gooseberry in New Zealand and Australia,
coming from Cape Town - South Africa, in sailing ship times.
Originated from South America, and boiled-up makes the best jam - ever.
I purchased a plant in 1970, now the street has plants spread by birds. Nuisance value: Harmless.
Love your comment! Couldn’t have said it better myself! 😊
I learned something amazing from watching this video. I've never heard of a ground cherry. Now, I am very curious to find some. I wonder if they grow in the PNW
They do. 😊
this is true! I planted them 10 years ago and have never planted them again but they keep coming up.
You are a true natural RedRiverMan!
Oh wow! This is a GREAT video. Thank you and Bless ya ❤
Thank you Kayla! God bless you too.
Had these for the first and second time this past fall. They are delicious.
Wonderful! 😊
What a great video! 🎉
Thank you Therese!
They are delicious ,got some growing in the yard right now yum 😋
Wonderful! ❤
I planted these the first time last summer. Got some, but squirrels got more. They are delicious!😊
Add a few sunflowers. 😊They’ll keep the squirrels busy, and the squirrels will replant your sunflowers everywhere!
@ Thank you for the tip!
@@susanbackus157 you’re welcome! ☺️
these grew wild near mustard fields in ND and I haven't thought of them in years. just ordered some seeds.
That’s fantastic! You’ll love them!
Never heard of them. Would love to try finding and planting. Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome. If you are in Canada, I can send you some seeds. If you are in the US or anywhere else, I recommend Seedsavers.org. They are a great organization that is ensuring to keep alive the traditional heirloom seeds that have been handed down for countless generations.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I am in Michigan U.S.A. Thank you for letting me know where to get some seeds. Really enjoyed your video.
@@lindamorgan2023 you're welcome. And thank you!
I hope you’ll do a video on making Ground Cherry Jam!
As soon as I make the next batch! Maybe I'll add how to grow the plant too, as so many people asked about that! 😊 Thank you for your comment!
I used to have wild ground cherries all over my property. I miss that. I felt like I was the only one who knew about them bc everyone looked at me like I was crazy. Thank you for this.
You’re welcome Opaland. I know how you feel. 😊 Maybe you can have all those ground cherries again!
@WillowsGreenPermaculture thank you. I live in Az now but Im hoping to find a old house up north with groundd cherries rhubarb, and maybe a gooseberry bush or two. I miss all of that stuff. Have a great day!!
Thank you, you too!
That's really cool. I never knew these were edible. I love watching channels like this and learning new things about our beautiful home.
Thank you @TheDirtyChef! Did you see my videos about pawpaws and also quince? Two great out of the ordinory fruit for food! And quince especially good for cooking! Here are the links: Pawpaws: th-cam.com/video/wfLWT2ha8og/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UYFVxo2BLVI5Lzzl
And quince: th-cam.com/video/MI-os19syuI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=frAAaByEsnMFUu3V
I have never heard of these or tried them. Thanks for showing me something new to try.
You’re welcome! 😊
they are so delicious; I only grew once and haven't seen seeds since. I was dumb and didn't save my seeds and I didn't look for volunteers
Many seed catalogues have these now. I’m sure you can find some if you’d like. 😊
Nice ground cherries information, TFS!
Thank you.
THANKS !
I've often seen them, never would have guessed that they were edible.
Again - Thanks 😎👍
You’re welcome Big Dipoer!
They are great. Also called cape gooseberries (over the pond)
Thank you! Yes, same family! Here is the follow-up video to this video, if you’d like more details or if you’d like to make jam.
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They grow so well in zone 4 and self seed; taste has nothing to do with tomatoes; very sweet and mild, nice treat!
You’re exactly right Irishka!
Thank you for your comment! I was confused, hearing them compared to tomatoes so much.
@ you’re welcome. Here is the follow up to the video which will clear up the confusion even better!
Great idea!! I'm mexicana and only cooked it as salsa! Thanks 🎉
¡Es un placer! ¿No estás confundiendo con tomatillo (miltomate), que es parecido y en la misma familia de planta (physalis)?
You know your subject so well. Thank you for the vlog
Thank you Elena. That means a lot to me! 😊
I grew ground cherries for the first time this year in Minnesota. Many people we shared the harvest with had no clue what they were.
Tomorrow, I will be making ground cherry jam for Christmas. I had 4 plants total. Hoping they volunteer themselves this next year! I got the starts from the farmers market.
I hope to plant a plum tree. Then I can make plum and ground cherry pie.
That sounds delicious!
👍😎 Learn something knew every day have seen them but never knew anything about them ✌️
Touch grass!
Its an amazing world out there
@@alfonsedente9679that’s for sure!
Glad I could help you discover something new!
Yeah, we used to have wild grand cherries, and I love them. Nothing like a good snack when you’re hunting.
You bet!
Nice video. These are originally from Peru and surrounding countries to some extent. When people first started exploring the "new world," these were taken back home to try in various parts of the world. They got new names in almost every place they went to. In Hawaii they are called Poha. It's become a well-known local favorite here.
Excellent synopsis, thank you!
First, thank you for this video, very informative and useful! Now can someone give a good descriptor of the actual flavor, I keep hearing them compared to tomatoes, then berries, then citrus, and I think one person said pears, are they sweet, tart, bitter?
@@genemehl3774 Sweet and tangy, a bit like pineapple. Cooking them brings out the sweetness. That’s why a jam is so good!
@genemehl3774 These have truly a unique flavor, making it hard to describe. The best I can come up with is an expected fruity berry flavor, but throw in some earthy vanilla and cardamom. Think eggnog. Nutmeg might be a reach, but there is a very slight spice feel in there, somewhere. It's usually sweet off the bush. But cooked into a jam with sugar, it is exceptional.
@ great description! 😊
Discovered these this summer. Son thought he was planting a tomatillo plant and it wasn’t. I gathered them froze them and made jam. Great. Bought some seeds for next year.
That’s wonderful! Next time you can collect the seeds!😊
Thank you so much for this video! I appreciate your familiarity with these neat little things. I'm going to grow them in my garden and around my land for my people and wildlife. It was good of you to list the Latin names and varieties too. (I subscribed.)
I'm assuming these will also self seed in zone 9?
Thank you @B30pt87! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture! I am going to try to remember to put in those Latin names systematically as I do my videos.
They go great in salads
Great idea! 😋
Never heard of these 😮but I found one of those in my yard I didn’t know what it was I left it hoping it would grow wow 🤩
That wonderful! 😊
I was in a city park and the person I was with pointed them out. We both ate a few right off of the plant!
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Did you like them raw?
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture it was 30 years ago, my recollection isn't that clear. But nothing bad happened 🎅
@@savage22bolt32 Hahaha! Wonderful! Great memory anyway! I hadn't discovered them yet 30 years ago!
I been wanting to grow these i think I'm going to this year i bet there tasty
Best of luck! 😊
My friends mom used to fill the candy dish ON THE coffee table with these. THEY HAVE a unique tast and it's hard to STOP eating them
Great way to eat them! 😊
So am i understanding this correctly in that they can also be eaten raw when they are yellow? Are they crazy tart or sour raw or are they sweet as well?
@@ToddDolce Yes, when ripe (yellow) they can be eaten raw, just like when a tomato is ripe (red) you can eat it raw. Neither can be eaten green. I know fried green tomatoes are a thing, but I wouldn't eat them. They are the same family and you can approach them in the same way. Ground cherries are fruity sweet however, different from tomatoes. I prefer their flavour in a jam, and many people can't resist them raw. I will occasionally eat them raw if I'm in the garden and I'm hungry and they’re right there.
@ Thanks for the information!!!
@@ToddDolce you’re welcome!
We had a couple plants like these grow in our garden and we had no idea that this was something edible. Wow! Very interesting!
Thank you!
This is the first time I have seen this type of cherry. The type I often see and eat is the red fruit
These cherries look so lovely. Normally, how would you use this fruit?
They’re not actually cherries (cherries are from trees and shrubs in the ‘prunus’ family. Ground cherries are in the large tomato/potato family, and are a variety of ‘physalis’.
This was very intresting we use to eat these when i was growing up in the 1950's they were good from what i remember gosh its been a long time since i had even thought about those thanks brought back some memories 🙂
Thank you Patricia, for sharing your memory. It means so much to me that I could bring this back for you! 🙂
Interesting video
Thank you Christopher!
My MOM Had raised them,
GREAT PIE TOO!!!!
😋Wonderful!
neat plant. i am going to have to get some for fun. although, i have to figure out a way to eat them other than jam as i do not do sugar. maybe a sauce or flavoring for my stew. what do they taste like? they are quite beautiful. i love the looks of this unique plant 🙂
@@AlsFoodForest if you read the comments, many people prefer to eat them raw just like that! I guess I have a bit of a sweet tooth. I do eat them raw sometimes. Some people have a rough time accumulating for jam, because they just eat them.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture found them at my favorite seed source (MI gardner) and put them in my cart. ill grow them next year 🙂
@@AlsFoodForest Fantastic! I think you’ll like them, especially because they come back readily.
I have so many of these plants growing on my property, it's insane. They are tasty
They’re wonderful! 😊
Adonai (God) planted some in our side yard last year. They came up in a bush this year. I did not know what they are. Thank you! More proof that HE provides for our nutrients! Thank you for teaching what they are! He's planted mullien, plantain and other herbs too! Now I don't want to mow my yard! lol but I gotta cuz it grows sooo fast! So I harvest what I can before hand. lol
You are absolutely right @Stizel-Swik, when we garden working with nature, we are doing Adonai’s work and we are pleasing in the eyes of Adonai. We are doing what Adonai asked us to do in the beginning. Care for creation. How do we care for creation. By observing how creation works and imitating creation. For example, through imitating and working with nature you get the most success! 😊 How do you do this? Let me give you an example. You create habitat around your garden to attract birds, frogs, toads, other amphibians, pollinators and other native bugs, to your garden. They will control your pests for you. You do this by planting native species of plants, and by putting vertical elements for birds to perch and for plants to use, and by putting logs and other shelters for amphibians and solitary bees and wasps. These animals will eat all the pests for you! And you use a biodiverse choice of plants so they help each other grow and mask each other from pests, and you build the life in the soil with very much organic matter, and you avoid using anything that might kill life. Do like nature, and you will have abundance.
He planted cancer in my family
@@FoulPet I am sorry to hear this. I have known this pain as well. I would not wish it on anyone.
Excellent video. These are found occasionally in our area but it's hard to spot the fruit if you are not familiar with the plant. They are a happy find! (From Wayne in northwest Arkansas, USA)
Thank you Wayne from Arkansas! 😊
I lost my permaculture mojo this year for so many reasons but one was that I soooooo wanted to grow these, but I couldn’t even get one seed to sprout. I was heartbroken. I’m trying to get my spirits up again to try again next year.
Sometimes you just have to let go and let nature do what she wants and go see what you can find afterward. Living like that can be liberating! Where are you located @nitanice?
@ So after 30+ years in St. Thomas, St. John and Tampa (tropics and subtropics) I moved to Carlisle, PA. In Tampa I would get hundreds of pounds of mangos, avocados, my macadamia nuts gave birth the year I sold my house, my sweet potatoes could have taken over the neighborhood. I bought a blank slate of a property here - no trees or shrubs, just grass. Planted a columnar apple that the neighbor accidentally mowed over. the hazelnut bush I got looks sadder than Charlie brown’s Christmas tree after three years - so many things just didn’t go right. I’m trying to learn the plants here, trying to understand a foreign climate.
I will say that the birds planted two blackberry bushes that I have to relocate. The squirrels planted some pumpkins that gave a fine yield, and some Amish ladies gave me three tomato plants that I think gave me about 15+ pounds of tomatoes. I just still look out and it looks so vacant and empty and tree and shrub less. Am currently trying to plan a small basement winter garden, but any ANY thoughts you have about my climate and getting my mojo back are welcome!
@@nitanice Hi Anita. That’s a big adaptation after 30 years in one place. It’s normal what you are going through. The same happened to me when I moved to semi-arid Oaxaca, from Ontario. But if you are there, then you are there for a reason, and you will learn the species that do best.
You are in the heart of the Carolinian Zone. I am just north of its Northern Limit (Southern Ontario). I am north of Lake Ontario. The southern limit is the Carolinas. You are in the middle. This is a rich and varied climate with many food growing species you can grow. You are used to tropical, which is of course synonymous with the world’s greatest abundance. So anything after tropical will seem a bit like a desert. You say you started with grass. You probably need to build the soil. Nature can help you do that. I don’t know if you’ve watched other of my videos. Nature helps us a great deal. Watch the planning a permaculture paradise playlist. It should help. It will help you learn the species. But you can grow so much more in Carlisle than we can here, you will get it back. You will learn to recognize the beauty of what grows in your new home. Give it some time. Just watch and let nature teach you. Watch my pawpaw video from about three weeks ago. The one entitled “complete guide” it’ll give you the attitude for this area. It will give tips about how to imitate nature here. And the pawpaw is a tropical fruit that is native to here and to Carlisle. If you haven’t tasted the pawpaw yet, then try and get your hands on one as soon as possible. It’s probably too late this year, but I guarantee you, it will taste like home, and you can grow it in Carlisle. And don’t hesitate to ask questions. I’ll answer them. All the best. You can do this.
@nitanice There's a TH-cam channel called The Gardening Channel with James Prigione that's al about growing a food forest in a Nothern climate. James lives in New Jersey, which isn't too dissimilar to Pennsylvania, although he does seem to live in a very sheltered spot. His channel has great recommendations for cold-climate fruit trees, bushes, salad greens, etc.. If you can get your hands on American Persimmon trees or Pawpaw trees, they will grow in Pennsylvania. Heirloom apple trees are a good starter tree for growers not familiar with the climate that far North.
@WillowsGreenPermaculture You are so helpful. Thank you.
I tried this once eaten raw bought in a Farmers Market in NY, grown in PA. Loved it so much and have been wanting more of them. They are almost buttery in texture and delicious even raw. Any advice on planting these at a home garden in PA zone 7A ?
They’ll grow super well in 7a. Treat them like a pepper. Sowing in advance in little pots, indoors if necessary to get the warmth for germination. Transplant out after last frost. They are slow to germinate, that’s why you should treat them like peppers. They’re also vulnerable to frost like peppers. They’re even slower to germinate than peppers.
I used to have ground cherries at my last property and I was told they were an annual. I guess their is a perennial variety after all 🙂
Yes, they are generally considered an annual, especially in temperate, cold or northern climates. But there are cold hardy perennial ones! Check out the video description for their names.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Thank you. I saved your video in my watch later folder so that I can come back and find that description ☺
@@AlmostOffGridGrandmacre-zs5eu thank you! 😊
This was a thoroughly enjoyable video. Where do ground cherries grow? Where to buy seeds? Being from Oklahoma, seeing these has not happened. Thanks!😊
Thank you! They should grow in Oklahoma! They grow all over the world. You can get your seeds, I recommend, at Seedsavers.org. They are a great organization that is ensuring to keep alive the traditional heirloom seeds that have been handed down for countless generations.
I have never had these before let alone grown them. But I want to have as many varieties of fruit & veggies in my garden.
I grew them from seed… and had a good harvest. What I don’t know is are they PERRENNIAL?! After they have died off (due to frost), will they grow back??
If you bought seeds from a packet, they are likely an annual variety. However, they self seed readily, even in cold climates (we’re 5b here).
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Thank you!
@@renamarsland9642 you’re welcome Rena!
I always loved ground cherries!
I so love clammy ground cherries here in Maine. I don't garden, but I browse as I work outdoors.
We’ve got the clammy one here too! They’re actually perennial here. The same plant grows back every year same spot.
Got some plants at my neighborhood garden store. Labeled tomatillos i didn't think they grew big enough for tomatillos. I made salsa though with them. Delicious
Sometimes tomatillos can be small, especially if the plant grows hundreds and hundreds of them. In Oaxaca, their name is miltomate for this reason. It means thousand tomatoes.
@WillowsGreenPermaculture thank you for the information. I actually didn't realize the grew this far north. I'm 100 yards off the bluff of lake erie. They were very prolific.
@ are you in Ontario or the US? I grew up in that region of Ontario. Went to Turkey Point every summer for a month! My personal name for the whole region is “The Townships of Lake Erie”. Loved it!
Is this able to survive cold winter. I live in Georgia?
Thank you for your question! 😊 I am guessing you are from Georgia, the country on the Black Sea. It is much warmer in Georgia than it is here, in Stirling, Ontario, Canada. The temperature here can drop to -30C in winter. The last couple of years it has rarely gone below -15C, however. One way or another, the garden variety ground cherries self seed and come back. We also have two native varieties which simply go dormant in winter. See my pinned comment for species names.
Southwest Georgia near Alabama stateline here!! I too would like to grow these.
@@herelieskittythomas3726 you’re probably between zone 7 and 9? For sure it will grow there!
i planted them about 2 years ago. every year they pop up all over. i love them, very yummy when ripe still nice but bitter when green
They’re wonderful! 😊Do not eat when green, just like tomatoes.
They look exactly like tomatillos but smaller 😀
Yes. Tomatillo is also a physalis. I don’t know the second part of the identifier for ground cherry physalis.
I have never heard of these! I've been on a tangent trying to find things to grow that are native to the US (got pawpaws started earlier in the Fall). Ground cherries seem like they'll be a great addition. Thanks for the vid!
Well you’ve started in exactly the right way with pawpaws Ashley! All the best with the ground cherries! Check out my recent pawpaw video for tips if you want to plant more! Here’s the link: PAWPAWS! COMPLETE GUIDE for BEST RESULTS - Asimina Triloba - A TROPICAL FRUIT for Temperate Climates
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If you're looking for natural pectin, just add a few greener fruits. The greener the fruit, the more pectin it contains.
That’s correct! Green apples for example. Quince has one of the highest concentrations of pectin.
Never heard that B4!
@@savage22bolt32 I learned this from my grandmothers, who were both born at the turn of the last century before this one. And both of them taught me their secrets to success. One gm would take us foraging for wild cranberries, blueberries, saskatoons, and mossberries, and we were told to make sure we got green berries in with the ripe ones. The other one had a quince bush in her kitchen garden, and now I know why!
@@Chimera-lx5zg very cool! Thanks for posting that ☘
Wonderful! Beautiful stories!
I grew pineapple ground cherries this year. I planted late and only got 2 plants so they were my snack when I was gardening 😊
They’re great snacks! Is your variety very different from the common one?
@WillowsGreenPermaculture It's the first time I've grown ground cherries of any kind but they look just like yours.
Wonderful!
I didn't know Gandolph farmed.
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I planted these 4 years ago and the birds spread them everywhere. I let a few grow each year now and pull up about 20 every spring. That's mostly enough for the birds to forage on and leave everything else alone in my garden 👍
Great companion planting strategy!
Can you describe the flavor?
It tastes best made into jam. It’s a unique flavour, kind of tropical and the tiny seeds give you texture. Very sweet, an almost honey-like flavour when made into jam. Raw, it’s sweet and tangy at the same time.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture thanks! I've always been a bit skeptical of ground cherries, mostly because I didn't really know what they are. Your video has solved that problem for me, and they're now on my list of things to try.
@@andrewsackville-west1609that’s great! Glad to hear it!
Like a tropical tomato
@ much sweeter! 😊
My daughter bout me some seeds, I forgot to plant them this past year. But I’ll get them in this year. Thanks!
You’re welcome!
bought, not bout.
@@banjohappy 👍typo I’m sure. 😊
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture yes, typo, 😸
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