Anybody else grow and use ground cherries?

[lorihadams]

I'm not a fan of raw tomatoes, love em cooked....do they taste like tomatoes or do they have a totally different flavor?

 

[Wifezilla]

If they aren't totally ripe they can have a tomato-like zing to them. Totally ripe they taste sweet and nothing like a tomato.

 

[patandchickens]

Some varieties taste like very very very sweet tomatoes, some taste hardly anything like 'em. The one I grew last year was distinctly pineapple-flavored, although with a slight tomatoey aftertaste if you really concentrated on paying attention.

Like tomatoes they are a potentially-self-seeding annual, meaning IME that they self-seed vigorously if you don't want to but not at all if you're counting on it

Pat

 

[Henrietta23]

They don't remind me of tomatoes in the least. We eat them when they're fully ripe and have fallen off the plant here.

 

[Wifezilla]

Like tomatoes they are a potentially-self-seeding annual, meaning IME that they self-seed vigorously if you don't want to but not at all if you're counting on it

I will be sure to stand near my plants and shout loudly "I sure hope those HORRIBLE GROUND CHERRIES don't come back next year!"

Think that will ensure a bumper crop?