GROUND CHERRIES - PLANT Them ONCE, HARVEST FOREVER! ABUNDANT FRUIT that you Grow Like a Vegetable!

HERE’S a word about GROWING them: Start them as you would peppers they are soow to germinate so starting in little pots helps! Harden off and transplant out after it warms up in spring (early June here) and after all danger if frost is past.
Latin name: Physalis pruinosa. Here is the follow-up video to this video:    • WHY They Say You CAN’T EAT Ground Cherries...  
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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)! 😊

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Now back to info about this video!

Here's a comment I liked:

@kimers12660
Ground cherries, also known as husk cherries (Physalis pruinosa) are related to 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 late fall.

Here's last year's very short video:
   • Ground cherries on chinampa