"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:

"Carol Hague" wrote in message
One of my husband's colleagues planted some seeds he got from a Physalis
fruit bought from the supermarket.

He seemed to think they were an indoor-only plant, but I thought they
grew outside too - any thoughts on if/when I should plant it out please?

They do. It grows in the same sort of conditions that tomatoes will grow in
but because it is much smaller than a tom (and tastes somewhat like one) it
starts to produce earlier.

Thanks. It'll be staying indoors for a bit yet - it's only about 2" tall
and absolutely dwarfed by the huge pot it was given to us in. Seems to
be a tough little thing though - survived the trip home in Rob's trike
pannier anyway :-)

If it should get to the fruit-producing stage would it be advisable to
eat said fruit ?

YES! It's delicious! But you need to take the fruit out of its skin (???) I
think skin is the right word, maybe casing might be closer to the right
word.

The "paper lantern" bit, yes? I don't imagine that would taste very nice
at all :-)

A friend uses them in an amazing almond tart which is not the sort of
thing I would have ever thought to use them in as I think of them as a
vegetable but the tart is stunning.

Well, I suppose rhubarb is technically a vegetable and you can put
carrots in cake....

As long as it tastes nice, who cares ? :-)

--
Carol
"Never trust a man wearing leather shorts and a plastic dressing gown"
- Spray, "The Dangerous Sports Club"