Thanks for the info. I found these popping up all over my yard & identified with a plant app. So exciting! I'm studying botany, foraging, & herbalism with my homeschool daughter and am amazed at what God put all around us. Going to try cultivating some of them in my garden.

@baneverything5580

22 күн бұрын

I bought Cape Gooseberry seeds and there were two varieties. One crawls along the ground covering a huge area but the fruit is still green when ripe but very sweet. Most has gone to waste because I was afraid to eat them green but they tasted good. The other plants (Cape Gooseberry) are gigantic and fall over if not supported and have larger husks and large fuzzy leaves. None of those have ripened so far. So I bought a Ground Cherry variety with a different scientific name and planted a little group of those recently. A bunny ate part of them. Their leaves look like the ones he showed here.

I have the pineapple ground cherry and they volunteer to grow each year and a ton of them. I planted one in the raise bed last year and it grew like a cherry tomato size fruit. Sweet and delicious! Next time I'll try making a pie or preserve with the ground cherry. This plant give you a lot of fruits! 😁

I grew Aunt Mollys ground cherries for the first time last summer! I canned up some regular old jam with them, but our favorite was 'Ground Cherry Pepper Jam' with some wonderful jalapenos that the garden blessed us with! But, truth is, WE ATE MOST OF THEM EVERY DAY right off the ground! They were such a sweet surprise that our garden will never be without again!!

@HealthAndHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, you are much more creative than us. We have just ate them dried (I like them better dried than fresh) and fresh. For us we never need to plant them again. They volunteer around our garden.

Wow, I feel like an idiot. I never knew these were edible and always just saw them as a weed. Good to know, thanks for sharing!

I came here today because I just so happened to find this plant in an overgrown bed in Tennessee. Excited to try and spread it now.

Thank you! I found some of those growing in a corner against my house in an unlikely place. Very sweet! I must try to propagate them in one of my grocery rows or my annual garden.

Great video! I found these growing on the sunny side of my dads garage. Such a cool plant to happen upon

@HealthAndHomestead

3 жыл бұрын

For sure. It is so nice to simply find them. I actually planted some more on my property yesterday.

Once we had some of these grow in a chicken run! Pretty awesome! I may plant some this summer.

Hi there! I am growing some tomatillo plants. I also planted some green beans nearby. The beans never produced but there are a ton of plants popping up around them that look like tomatillos. My hubs and I were thinking, “how did all these tomatillos get here?” Then I remembered reading somewhere about a wild plant similar to them. I will investigate more. I am in zone 9a east of Houston near the gulf coast.

Thank you, your video has been very informative! I just bought some ground cherry seeds to plant this year and I’m super excited!

@HealthAndHomestead

3 жыл бұрын

I hope it goes well for you. Strangely enough, I like the ones that I buy from the store (which are more sour) than the ones I grew on my property. My wife and a friend like the ones we grew more than the store bought ground cherries. This year I am going to save seeds from the store bought ground cherries and see how they grow on my property. All the best.

@NoNORADon911

3 жыл бұрын

Whats the update?

Hi thank you for one of the best video about ground cherries. Good to know it fights cancer, Lower blood sugar and don’t eat it when it’s green. I planted ground cherries this year. Just wondering what to do with the green ones. I got it. Thank you so much. Look forward to more videos from you.

@HealthAndHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

I think if you are at the end of the season and a frost is coming you can pick the whole plant out by the roots. Then hang it in a dry place like a basement. They may still ripen over a several weeks.

Great tips, thanks for sharing.

@HealthAndHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great info👏🏻👏🏻thanks🤙

I grew some this summer plant was huge Got plenty flowers And they would fall off Never fruit

Peruviana... yes, it's a pretty name. :)

@HealthAndHomestead

3 жыл бұрын

I certainly think so.

I had no idea you could pluck up the plant end of season. They keep in their wrappers for a long time

@HealthAndHomestead

3 жыл бұрын

It is amazing how long they last.

@marysmith4811

11 ай бұрын

I'm glad to know this is edible. Every year I pull the plants up, and every summer, this thing sprouts up. All I can say is that it's pretty indestructible!

I just today found some of these growing in our backyard here in deep South Texas. I am assuming they were brought here by birds cuz I've never bought them or seen them before 🤷

WHen I lived in New England we used to have a ton of Japanese Lanterns in the backyard and they look a lot like those but larger and brightly colored. We thought they were poisonous. Are they edible too??

@susandobbins1313

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. The Japanese use them as part of a festival.

Great for raw salsa

Hello excellent job i have learn a lot with your vidéos (amazone)🙏🙏🙏🙏 Were can i get seads of that plant here in europe (GROUND CHÉRIES) Thanks and dont stop , please

@pauloxavier4503

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing job

Did you mean pluck up branches or the fruit only?

@HealthAndHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

You pluck the whole plant with branches in all. You can pull the whole plant and bring it inside.

I was super excited to find wild ground cherry growing in my yard, but it now has a bunch of beetle larvae eating it. What should I do? I hate to kill anything, but they're quickly eating the entire plant.

@stephanielovesshane

2 жыл бұрын

Same here!

Where do we buy a plant?

I actually tried some today growing wild on the farm. They were not sweet and my sister said they were a purplish instead of orange. They were a lot lighter a month ago. Any way I only tried one to be on the safe side with something new. Anyway it tastes like a tomato to her and me.

@CampingforCool41

11 ай бұрын

The cultivated varieties are much sweeter than wild ones, they don’t taste like tomatoes at all. More like a really mild pineapple.

@zacharywho5442

9 ай бұрын

@@CampingforCool41 I found mine wild also. I still think it tastes a bit like a tomato just because it's a bit watery, but it is definitely sweet.

We have that here,, plenty in the Philippines,, I thought that's poisonous, (childhood), if I'll find one Im gonna taste it..

@HealthAndHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Make sure it is the right plant sometimes there are plants that may looks similar but not the same. Just make sure. There is an app called picture this that can often help identify plants.

@ernestcardinal2523

2 жыл бұрын

@@HealthAndHomestead thank you

peruviana is not the ground cherry you are growing, but hopefully they have the same health properties. Those studies are about the cape gooseberry/peruvian groundcherry. I would be very careful about suggesting people eat wild ground cherries. As if there isn't a TON of poisonous plants in that family, like the chinese lantern for one that looks very similar.

@user-xj8wy4uu1q

7 ай бұрын

If it’s bitter don’t eat , if sweet, eat

Many people call this plant a ground cherry but it's not. The 2nd half of the following video will show you the differences... kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYmDyJKhXaXNfaw.html

... Are potatoes in the nightshade family? So yeah, eating them green would definitely cause you some abdominal disruption as you are mildly poisoning yourself ☠️👍

@NanaWilson-px9ij

5 ай бұрын

Yes, potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants are all nightshades.

Tomatillos

@HealthAndHomestead

3 жыл бұрын

No, these are not tomatillos. They look similar but are different.