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Now,I like to grow them again,maybe next year

I should have specified Cape Gooseberries. Cape Gooseberry: Recipes and Benefits | Fine Dining Lovers Quote: What are cape gooseberries? The cape gooseberry is known by many names. In its native Peru it is called uchava, while English-speaking countries may know it as goldenberry, physalis, ground cherry or pichuberry, and its rather poetic French name is amour-en-cage, or ‘love in a cage’. It is a member of the nightshade family, making it a distant relative of several edible plants, including the tomato, eggplant and potato. It is even more closely related to the Mexican tomatillo and the Chinese lantern, both of which it resembles. Despite its name, it is not actually related to the European gooseberry, although it does have a similar flavour.

Groundberries and gooseberries are not the same,just google it

We call them Gooseberries. Good in pies. The plants seed readily and become weeds to be controlled.

I grew them in a windowbox on my deck when I lived in Virginia. Now I live in Texas and I am having a hard time getting anything to grow...except cherry tomatoes which the squirrels eat

As far as a garden goes, we don't usually spend enough time at home to care for one, so for us it's only grass.

Being in central Oklahoma, Bermuda grows well here. As far as it's care, at age 76 and with huge allergies, my wife and I are blessed with the ability to have someone both spray it for all kinds of problems that might come up, and another company owned and run by a personal friend to cut and trim it. God has been so good to us and given us the ability to work and set up a decent retirement program. It also helps that we have a city park right across the street from us which the city keeps up. Park last fall.

Same here and what did you find you had to do to keep them growing healthily? Thanks

Personally I have a lawn??? in the rear garden that has gone to chaos. Too many things going on to deal with it so far but I may be making time this year to sort it out.

I thought it would be a good idea to have a topic on lawns and their care. What do you do to maintain your lawn? How do you deal with weeds? What types of grass are better for your area? etc.

Identification Quiz: This recent photo shows the flower and fruit of a plant I have in my garden. Who will be first to name the plant that produces this?.

Mine are in the greenhouse,LOADS of buds that grow to a tiny size ( about the size of a little finger nail ) then just go brown and rot

I have never heard of them but would love to try Any info on them would be much appreciated

Is there anyone here that is good with container gardening ?????

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Any info on storing cyclamens after their blooming time is done?

Sorry for the late reply. Still learning. Thanks for the info.

Hi! This has been a long winter and March is only a hint of spring to come. It is this time of year that I get in the mood for planning my garden. Soon it will be time to order seeds and when they arrive plant them indoors. But, this year I think I will start dahlias. It would be fun to grow and maybe begin a collection. Buying perennials is a great idea they don't take as much time and they last. Well just thinking of ideas and sharing.

Cletus, I think I am going to try growing sprouts! I just got a book and it seems simple enough. I shall prepare it for next year's winter. I will have to make lots of room on my window and have my hubby make some shelves! I will have to give you the name of the book I got! Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening .... I bought it through abebooks.com or thriftbooks.com... it was cheaper than amazon :)

It's almost the same time that you posted this thread angels4u....we are approaching winter for me...I just planted some garlic before the ground froze...I cannot plant anything else. I might try to plant some romaine.... I will have to experiment. I don't have a greenhouse so I gotta make do with what I have. here is a video I recently watched. She has a great idea about making a small greenhouse using a plastic bin. I'm thinking of trying this.

Yes, thank you, very helpful. I grow my own organic vegetables, have for years. I have the worse time with cabbage worms.

I love to look at garden art and things created to make ones gardening more useful or easier. I have made a few things in my garden.

I have a vegetable garden each year as well as fruit trees and vines. I need the bees and ants for my produce so, yes, I plant flowers and things to draw the pollinators in that I need. My okra is right next to my peony becasue both need ants, for example.

Hello Yves - or do you prefer Orphan? I've got to say, I'm sure glad I started earlier. If I waited until now when I'm 65 I'd have suffered more doing the heavy work in the garden and probably could not have done as much. I'm going to the Y a few times a week now to take better care of this tired old body and it is helping. But arthritis prevents me from doing a few things. So I'm very happy to have done the heavy lifting while I still could! Where do you garden if you don't mind my asking?

Hi fellow gardeners. I wonder if anyone else started out growing food plants but ended up growing flowers and other plants just for the sake of drawing birds and butterflies and bees into your gardens? That is what happened to me. When I first started out, if you couldn't eat it, I wouldn't grow it. Now I'm just about the opposite. Actually it started off as my wife's garden. She had a vegetable garden and planted a lot of roses. Well, mostly I dug the holes for her roses .. all the while insisting that unless she watered them they would die as I would surely not think to do so. Now the garden is mine and she is happy to enjoy it and do her own artwork in her studio. The summer after my first year of teaching I built an outdoor aviary for birds and kept finches, some of which nested and had babies. The next summer I built two more aviaries and converted an old 10 foot square garden shed into a place the birds could go to for shelter. Once I got around to planting the outdoor flight cages, I got hooked on plants. We live next to a year around creek and are on a natural fly way linking the bay to the hills. So I started reading about plants that gave food and shelter to birds and started planting to create verge areas which are more appealing to them. Anyhow, long story short, the more I read about plants and visited gardens, the more my planting for the birds started to be about planting to create scenes to please myself too. Twenty five years into it I am pleased to have full grown trees I planted myself but also lots of open areas. I retired from teaching a couple years back and last spring I hosted a Garden Conservancy garden tour to help them raise money. I met a fellow who makes a gardening blog called Succulents and more. Well actually I didn't meet him at first but another gardening friend who reads him set me this url in which he shares photographs he took here that day and writes about his impressions. I always find it so interesting to see my garden through someone else's eyes. http://www.succulentsandmore.com/2017/04...html#links