Here's Part 1 to this video: th-cam.com/video/bN3A8qiKkrE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Tr0CXE7Z8eO-EPlC I show how to harvest, and how you can let a week or two go by, while you let the ground cherries fall to the ground to harvest them.
My end-of-season green tomatoes are all used for green salsa. Tastes amazing. The recipe for it was in a Ball canning cookbook (and it can be found online).
Thank you for this Donica. If I find it or another good link for a good recipe, I’ll put it in the description. I guess the idea is, they should never be eaten raw when green. And because ground cherries are so small, people might eat them green and raw without thinking. Then get sick. That’s why I was so insistent. 😊
I’m wondering if that’s the same plant as garden huckleberry, which looks just like it, but the fruit is slightly bigger. Both remind me of eggplant, if eggplant were tiny. Same flour end on the fruit. And garden huckleberry plant can sometimes be prickly like eggplant. Happy New Year Shaun!
@WillowsGreenPermaculture never heard of garden huckleberry being prickly. In fact what I've read is that if it's prickly you should consider it poisonous, but that's all I know about that. But yes, garden huckleberry is part of the Solanum nigrum complex, all of which are edible.
@ I’ve had the occasionsl main stems have prickles on them like eggplant. But they were volunteers, so maybe they werent huckleberries. They sure looked like them. Same size, shape and shape of plant. I didn’t harvest them.
I grew ground cherries for the first time this year in a pot, to see if I liked them. They are great. I was thinking about trying them with some gerkins in a sun tea, thinking the combination may be a refreshing drink. It may be awful, but I will see.
all my children and even myself say that ground cherry tastes like fruit punch !! his grandmother gave us a bunch and we ate a few but planted a bunch, now we have them everywhere ! our little girl at 5 knew when they were ripe, shed check everyday to see if they went and changed colors lol when they did, there often weren't many left over for us to all share lol
@@WillowsGreenPermaculturefried green tomatoes are made from green tomatoes that are fully formed and just on the verge of ripening. Though they are still green, they aren’t harvested when still actively growing, hard, and acrid…so there is minimal remaining toxicity to begin with.
@ thank you so much for this. I’ve never heard this explanation before. It makes sense. The kind of tomato that will turn red on the window sill within 24 hours or so, you could say. Whereas some picked green tomatoes can stay that way for weeks.
I just added this paragraph to the description of the video to answer this question. (The garden variety often self-seeds - the other two are perennial) 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)! 😊
I showed the photos of the plants I had picked the ground cherries from, but because it’s winter, they’re not there anymore. Here is the video in which I had just picked some. th-cam.com/video/bN3A8qiKkrE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tavb4eHB3gm3VxvD
Summers are very hot here, so I would think they should at least be able to grow as an annual in Georgia, where it’s certainly hotter than here . I’ve had lots of comments of them growing in Texas, so I don’t know how the climate compares.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I live in Georgia. I've been eating Fried Green Tomatoes for decades. Love the taste, never gotten a bellyache from them. They make good pickles too. Your comments made me chuckle.
@ Thank you. I’m glad you took it lightly. Yes, I’ve heard of fried green tomatoes. I think I even tried making them one time about 25 years ago. I imagine they have to be well fried, and maybe not something you’d eat in large quantities. Sort of an ‘end of season this is what we’ve got left’ kind of thing to do. Like eating sorrel for about three weeks in early spring like we do when you don’t have anything else. I got so many comments about not eating sorrel in that video I did in the spring. But I spend about a month eating it every spring. Or fiddleheads, for that matter - that’s another contentious food.
Thank you. 😊 As for eating them green cooked, I know that you can eat fried green tomatoes. However, the tomatoes you can eat this way, one subscriber explained to me, have to be tomatoes that are really on the verge of changing colour. I don’t know if you can cook and eat green ground cherries. I wouldn’t. They don’t taste good green anyway. Ripe (yellow) ground cherries are delicious raw or cooked into jam or other stuff.
When I read your comment, at first I thought it said ‘field’. Yes, I’ve heard of fried green tomatoes. I imagine they have to be well fried, and maybe not something you’d eat in large quantities. Sort of an ‘end of season this is what we’ve got left’ kind of thing to do. Like eating sorrel for about three weeks in early spring when you don’t have anything else. Or fiddleheads, for that matter.
Here's Part 1 to this video: th-cam.com/video/bN3A8qiKkrE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Tr0CXE7Z8eO-EPlC
I show how to harvest, and how you can let a week or two go by, while you let the ground cherries fall to the ground to harvest them.
Your videos are always great: so full of practical, detailed information and so inspirational at the same time! Thank you!!!
Thank you Eleonora!
Could you substitute grated green apple instead of your quince?
@ yes! 😊 I don’t have apples yet!
I grew ground cherry for the first time this year. They were the perfect morning snack while tending the garden. Thank you for the video.
You’re welcome! 😊
Good job.thank you 👍👍👍
You’re welcome! 😊
This video is packed with goodness 🍅 TFS!
Thank you!
Could you do a video on the poke berry? Thank you.
Thank you for the suggestion. If I can find some to plant, then sure! 😊 I know a local grower of native plants. If it grows around here, I’ll get it.
My favorite pie is green tomato pie! Of course it's cooked/baked so you can eat it safely.
I’d love to get a recipe! Can you recommend one? 😊
in south america there is a fruit that is related to it, It is called Uchiva
Si, la uchuva es physalis peruviana, en inglés se llama cape gooseberry. Casi la misma planta que este, la physalis pruinosa.
love this vid. what beautiful colour the jam has 🥰
Thank you Alsan! 😊
My end-of-season green tomatoes are all used for green salsa. Tastes amazing. The recipe for it was in a Ball canning cookbook (and it can be found online).
Thank you for this Donica. If I find it or another good link for a good recipe, I’ll put it in the description. I guess the idea is, they should never be eaten raw when green. And because ground cherries are so small, people might eat them green and raw without thinking. Then get sick. That’s why I was so insistent. 😊
Black nightshade, similarly, is entirely edible when ripe. Delicious, nutritious, and very healthful.
I’m wondering if that’s the same plant as garden huckleberry, which looks just like it, but the fruit is slightly bigger. Both remind me of eggplant, if eggplant were tiny. Same flour end on the fruit. And garden huckleberry plant can sometimes be prickly like eggplant.
Happy New Year Shaun!
@WillowsGreenPermaculture never heard of garden huckleberry being prickly. In fact what I've read is that if it's prickly you should consider it poisonous, but that's all I know about that. But yes, garden huckleberry is part of the Solanum nigrum complex, all of which are edible.
@ I’ve had the occasionsl main stems have prickles on them like eggplant. But they were volunteers, so maybe they werent huckleberries. They sure looked like them. Same size, shape and shape of plant. I didn’t harvest them.
I grew ground cherries for the first time this year in a pot, to see if I liked them. They are great. I was thinking about trying them with some gerkins in a sun tea, thinking the combination may be a refreshing drink. It may be awful, but I will see.
Gerkins - you mean pickles or just plain cucumbers? They might go well because cucumbers are a subtle flavour.
all my children and even myself say that ground cherry tastes like fruit punch !! his grandmother gave us a bunch and we ate a few but planted a bunch, now we have them everywhere ! our little girl at 5 knew when they were ripe, shed check everyday to see if they went and changed colors lol when they did, there often weren't many left over for us to all share lol
@@annayoder4332 that’s wonderful!
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Video on making sorghum bread would be an idea
@@janew5351 thank you. That will come eventually!
Cooking green tomatoes and potatoes at high enough temperatures can reduce solanine levels. Peeling green potatoes can also reduce levels as well.
Thank you. I’ve always just cut off the green parts of my potatoes and cooked them. Maybe I’ll try some fried green tomatoes next fall.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculturefried green tomatoes are made from green tomatoes that are fully formed and just on the verge of ripening. Though they are still green, they aren’t harvested when still actively growing, hard, and acrid…so there is minimal remaining toxicity to begin with.
@ thank you so much for this. I’ve never heard this explanation before. It makes sense. The kind of tomato that will turn red on the window sill within 24 hours or so, you could say. Whereas some picked green tomatoes can stay that way for weeks.
Good idea to put them in the freezer until you accumulate enough for jam. Did you say the plants will come back the following season?
I just added this paragraph to the description of the video to answer this question.
(The garden variety often self-seeds - the other two are perennial)
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)! 😊
What berries can we use? Thought we would of seen what trees you got the berries from.
I showed the photos of the plants I had picked the ground cherries from, but because it’s winter, they’re not there anymore. Here is the video in which I had just picked some.
th-cam.com/video/bN3A8qiKkrE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tavb4eHB3gm3VxvD
Elderberries have lots of nutrients!
@@janew5351 yes, we have two videos on those!
How far south in the US do the Ground Cherries grow? I am in south Georgia. I don't think I have ever seen them growing here.
Summers are very hot here, so I would think they should at least be able to grow as an annual in Georgia, where it’s certainly hotter than here . I’ve had lots of comments of them growing in Texas, so I don’t know how the climate compares.
Tomatoes are members of the Nightshade family.
Thank you! That’s correct. Solanaceae family: Nightshade.
Isn't gooseberry aswaghanda.
They are in the same family as aswaghanda. 😊
Ok, so how do you feel about eating green tomatoes? :)
😂😂Was I a little too repetitive with that point? 😀
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I live in Georgia. I've been eating Fried Green Tomatoes for decades. Love the taste, never gotten a bellyache from them. They make good pickles too. Your comments made me chuckle.
@ Thank you. I’m glad you took it lightly. Yes, I’ve heard of fried green tomatoes. I think I even tried making them one time about 25 years ago. I imagine they have to be well fried, and maybe not something you’d eat in large quantities. Sort of an ‘end of season this is what we’ve got left’ kind of thing to do. Like eating sorrel for about three weeks in early spring like we do when you don’t have anything else. I got so many comments about not eating sorrel in that video I did in the spring. But I spend about a month eating it every spring. Or fiddleheads, for that matter - that’s another contentious food.
I appreciate the way those proper latin names just roll off your tongue! You say not to eat the green ones, do you mean raw?
Thank you. 😊 As for eating them green cooked, I know that you can eat fried green tomatoes. However, the tomatoes you can eat this way, one subscriber explained to me, have to be tomatoes that are really on the verge of changing colour. I don’t know if you can cook and eat green ground cherries. I wouldn’t. They don’t taste good green anyway. Ripe (yellow) ground cherries are delicious raw or cooked into jam or other stuff.
Fried green tomatoes aren't poisonous
When I read your comment, at first I thought it said ‘field’. Yes, I’ve heard of fried green tomatoes. I imagine they have to be well fried, and maybe not something you’d eat in large quantities. Sort of an ‘end of season this is what we’ve got left’ kind of thing to do. Like eating sorrel for about three weeks in early spring when you don’t have anything else. Or fiddleheads, for that matter.
I guess it's a southern food, it's not end of season food,,we start eating them before we get any ripe tomatoes
@@davidhart8575 oh wow! I learned something today! Ok, I’m going to have to try them again after 25 years. I need a good recipe.
Yea, you should try them @@WillowsGreenPermaculture
Thank you!