HI,I HAVE WINTER SQUASH SEND ME AND EMAIL I HAVE A PIC. OF THE ONE I GROWED.DO YOU HAVE PEPPER'S FISH,LITTLE ELF,PETER PEPPER MAYBE

Hey, another Saskie growing ground cherries! (Or are you an Albertan? Close enough). Some of my ground cherries drop to the ground when still unripe. I scoop these up into a cardboard box and keep it on the counter. Any partially ripe ones (even those with the slightest tinge of yellow) ripen within 2 weeks. They ripen much slower than tomatoes in this respect. Completely green ones may or may not ripen. Check on them about twice a week and move the fully ripe ones to a cool, dry location, such as a basement.

Can you give us a botanical/Latin name Nancy? If you're talking about Physalis edulis, a small relative of the tomatillo family: I let them ripen on the vine until they're yellow. Most get eaten while I'm in the garden. I bury the ones the birds get to first in one place, mark it, and have seedlings for next year. Surplus? Substitute for apples in any pie recipe, but I'm not sure about acid/pectin content when making jam.

Hi Bill I am very familiar with a lot of ground cherry varieties and I can tell the difference in the taste, some are better than others, some are easier too. My aunt had a patch and they grew like weeds, no care and sometimes I would snack on them, not too often because she had the best fruits in her garden and so did I.:) If you liked the Pineapple variety, you will like the others even more, there is one that grows very tall and I think is the Hawaiian one, others are bush and Derek from Tampa had a variety that was so hardy! and spread like ground cover, I did not get a name but it had different leaves also. I sample few other varieties when at Monticello at the Harvest festival, one of the better ones was Aunt Molly. The small yellow are different varieties of ground cherries About the tomatillos, I grew Heirloom Purple and Toma Verde Green, very productive! and grew tall just like a tomato, they are somewhat easier but at the end of the season they get diseased with our humidity and also cannot take the freeze, I would start them in spring or if you are starting them now put them in a container, you will need support for them and move them when we get a freeze. December tomatillos in a salsa Silvia