How to grow ground cherries, tomatillos, and husk tomatoes?
Ground cherries are very easy to grow in home vegetable gardens.Design Your Own Vegetable Garden Layout Using our Free “Vegetable Garden Planner” Software! This warm season vegetable bears fruit about the size of a cherry tomato. The plants are “individually wrapped” with a green, yellow, or reddish color papery husk. This is one of the reasons that children find the fruits so interesting! I remember the first time I saw ground cherries growing in my aunt’s garden. I was amazed and thrilled with the little papery husks covering the warm sweet fruit inside. Tomatillos resemble the beautiful orange Chinese lantern plant which is a close relative.About Tomatillos Peeling back the husk of tomatillos reveals a green, yellow or purplish seedy solid fruit that tastes either sweet or tangy depending on the chosen variety. The bush reaches heights of 18 to 48 inches. The fruit should not be harvested until the husks become tan-colored and drops from the plant. The pulp of certain varieties of t
