Today's harvest

[Georgie]

Just enough for my picnic in Regent's Park tomorrow.  Cucumber BTG, Micro Toms, Spring Onion, a few Physallis and TWO whole Alpine Strawbs.   ;D  (Will pick the herbs fresh tomorrow.)

G x

[Georgie]

[manicscousers]

wow, our physallis are still tiddlers and green  :)
rest of it looks like our lunch, bbq at the plot  ;D

[tim]

Good looking Alpines!

[gina]

i'm a newbie, whats a physallis?? getting keys in the morning yey!!

[Georgie]

Awww Manics, yours will catch up.   :)

Thanks Tim.  I've eaten a few and they taste good too.  Mignonette from seed this year.   ;D

Hello Gina and welcome.  Physallis are sometimes called Cape Gooseberries.  They taste something like a cross between a Tomato and a Gooseberry and I love them.   :D

G x

[manicscousers]

hiya, gina, welcome to the site,
we bought some fruit to try last year and loved the taste, bought some seeds, we've three plants, someone said on here they were thugs, I didn't think so, but they are, they're taking over  ;D

[Amazin]

...and you'll never need to buy another seed - EVER!

;D