"FarmI" wrote in reply to
"Carol Hague"
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.

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. 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.

I remember some years ago eating them after they had been dipped in plain
chocolate. Lovely.

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Regards
Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK