#CapeGooseberry or #GoldenBerry is growing well here, looks to be very drought tolerant & best of all produces about 1-2 servings of fruit every few days for months on end. So far, it seems to produce steadily instead of a huge crop and then nothing.
@meganL It is ok. The ground cherries we got in WI were better. But the consistency of production is huge. It is definitely filling in between other fruit crops with less need to eat canned or dried fruits. Also, the chickens don't recognize them as food with the husks on, which is also good.
That project appears to have stopped sending out seeds.🙁
@Laplantgenetics Aw, that's a bummer. I was really hoping she'd want me for her lab when I was applying to grad school, but she went with someone else. I was very interested in the project. She was importing germplasm from places that have improved varieties. Stuff that I haven't seen in stores here (grocery or seed).
@meganL@Laplantgenetics I've tried growing some of these, but my seedling did not take. However, I see from that page they have been doing aquaponics/hydroponics on them (which avoids some of the ground temperature/pest issues), may have to try it again. The last batch I started was from random fruit at Trader Joe's, LOL (10 years ago probably). Tomatillos grow insanely well in hydroponics.
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