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OT anyone raise ground cherries?

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F.E.Bear

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Does anyone raise ground cherries? they are delicious berries about the size of blueberries but yellow when ripe and grow in a Japanese lantern type husk. They make delicious pies and jams or jellies. My Grandma made the best pies but my mom couldn't. I grow enough for our use. What varieties do you raise and where do you get the seed or plants? I buy the plants from a Burkholder in Berks Co. PA. and plants do come up as volunteers from my last years crop. I tried to raise some from seed but got nothing. I am interested in growing some from seed, if possible.
I am harvesting some at this time. I freeze them and make pies. YUM, YUM!
Fred.
 
We used to have wild ones in one of our pastures. They would grow some years and not other years. Whenever they did come up, we kept the cattle out of that pasture until we were able to pick them. They were VERY good.
 
They would come up naturally in our garden, dad loved them in jelly. Rest of us didnt care for them.

Paul
 
My Mom used to make preserves out of them. A couple of years ago I saw some seeds in a spring catalog and ordered some for myself and a neighbor. My seeds didn't come up but my theirs did. I don't know if they still have any as this year the deer have destroyed everything from the flowers in their yard to the veggies in the garden. I would still like to get a start of them.
 
Thanks for posting this. I have them growing in a few areas around my place - volunteer of course. I asked everyone I knew what they were, not one person could tell me. I figured they were tomatoes from last years seeds in the garden. And on the rest of the property I thought they had been spread by the birds.

Learned something new. I don't have enough to make anything big, but can do something with the few that are here and there.

Rick
 
Seems like the seed has to be in the ground over winter cause they come up like weeds in the early summer next year.
 
I run a Garden Center and have started them from seed every spring for the past 25 years and will continue doing so, If you want some seed let me know, Kevin
 
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