GROUND CHERRIES! HOW TO GROW! ABUNDANT FRUIT You Grow Like a Vegetable! Plant Once Harvest Forever!

Ground Cherries (Physalis pruinosa), aka Cape Gooseberries (Physalis peruviana), are a great, easy to grow abundant fruit that you can harvest in a single season - in the same growing season as you sow it - right in your vegetable garden, especially because you actually 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 usually grows back every year! The key to getting the best and most abundant Ground Cherries is Companion Planting - a system that readily imitates the advantages of natural biodiversity right in your garden! Join me as I plant some ground cherries, and go over the steps and practical tips to growing the best ground cherries ever! 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 (the Nightshade Family). And, LIKE tomatoes, you should NEVER eat them when they are GREEN (or in other words - NOT RIPE). There were many many comments in my ither videos 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 can make you sick. Any food vegetable in the tomato family, with the exception of peppers, SHOULD NEVER BE EATEN GREEN (and especially raw and 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 the same problem - don't eat them if they're green. I realize that fried green tomatoes are made with green tomatoes, but they are green tomatoes that are on the verge of changing colour and being fully ripe, and they are cooked. I don't think anyone makes fried green tomatoes with dull, just forming green tomatoes - but correct me if I'm wrong! Time Stamp Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:32 Different types of physalis and different names. 0:57 Are they really gooseberries? 1:00 Physalis are in the tomato (nightshade) family. 1:21 How long can they take to germinate and why and how big should they be before transplanting? 2:58 Transplanting tips. 5:48 One and a half minute transplanting demo - no words. Just the ambient bird song 7:40 Transplanting advice and companion planting tips. 8:55 Spacing 12:13 Self-seeded ground cherries. Plant once, harvest forever. 12:51 Growth habits of the ground cherries, and growth habits of companion plants surrounding them. 14:26 Harvesting oregano - great for the kitchen and giving space to the ground cherries 16:45 Catnip - natural mosquito and tick repellant 17:00 More companion plants and more about ground cherry growth habits 17:51 Self-seeded ground cherry volunteers among the watermelon. Clearing the watermelon, patch of weeds before transplanting the watermelons in mid-June while it was really hot, heated up the soil and exposed it to the sun sufficiently to provoke the germination of the tiny ground cherry seeds that of course did not get cleared with the weeds because they’re so tiny. 19:00 Outro and thank you 19:27 Wild rose with pollinators and some quiet music by our friend Tom Doughty. Website: https://www.willowsgreenpermaculture.com For online consultations or onsite consultations, please contact me: Email: [email protected] If you're thinking of starting a garden in your backyard or on a balcony, or launching a full scale permaculture project, let's talk and see how I can help you! Magali's channel and Website: Elemen-Terre:    / @racontemoilinvisible1   Website: https://www.elementerre.ca Join this channel to support the free sharing of useful guides to growing your own food and becoming self-sufficient, a get a few perks too! 😊 Just click the join button below the video: / @willowsgreenpermaculture