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[Mark Lee <mark.lee.phd@gmail.com>]

Devin,
I have grown annual ground cherries in the past, and I like them. I'm also
interested in perennial plants that produce edibles. About 10 years ago I
tried to obtain some perennial species of Physalis. I started the process
by browsing my favorite online resource for edible plants, Plants for a
Future, http://www.pfaf.org/user/plantsearch.aspx, and I came up with a
list of perennial species of Physalis that I could potentially use in my
edible landscape. After searching through online seed catalogs and
nurseries, the only species I found available were annual. I also noticed
that the perennial species were on a few noxious weed lists. I gave up on
my search. It seemed like the cards were stacked against me finding the
species on my want list of perennial Physalis. I am glad to hear that you
have found success.
Where are you located?
-Mark Lee, Seattle


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Robert Bruns <r.fred.bruns@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Devin -
>
> Where are you located?  Here in central Indiana, the edible ones don't
> overwinter.  The only physalis that does overwinter is Chinese
> Lantern, which isn't edible.  It is obviously a different species from
> the edible ground cherry, both from appearance of the plants and from
> the fact that the two don't hybridize even when grown next to each
> other.
>
> My favorite ground cherry is "Cossack Pineapple".  I think it's listed
> as just plain "Pineapple" in some catalogs.
>
> If you can provide seeds of your variety, I'd love to try it.
>
> Fred Bruns
>
>
> On 8/19/14, Jwlehman--- via nafex <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> > My Mother grew them during my childhood and she made Ground Cherry Pie.
> My
> >
> > sister and my wife make ground cherry pie which is one of my favorites.
> I'm
> >
> > in  zone 5B and they come up volunteer every year, more like a weed. So I
> > just  transplant them in a short row. They come up in my compost pile.
> > Insects  for me aren't a big problem. Planting them with a plastic ground
> > cover
> > makes  collecting them easier. They are quite a popular garden plant in
> my
> > home town of  Berne, IN.
> >
> > Ground cherry pie....yum yum!
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 8/19/2014 9:07:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > 6ducks@gmail.com writes:
> >
> > I've  eaten physalis spp. before, but this year am growing my first crop,
> > Baker  Creek Heirloom Seed's 'Ground Cherry'. No ripe fruit yet, but what
> > fruit I  have doesn't look any bigger than 1/2".  And the bugs are
> > ferocious--  flea beetles perhaps.
> > Baker doesn't give the species name for these, but  I'd guess they're
> > perennials in warmer zones.
> > At any rate, I'd love to  experiment with some that might be perennial
> in a
> > zone 6.  We have  native Physalis here, why not larger-fruited ones,
> too?
> >
> >
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