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  • #1

    What is this?

    Hi all,

    I bought a plant at a carboot a few weeks ago and was told that it is a gooseberry plant/bush. Hopefully somebody can help me out.

    Also what ever it is it fruiting? It has a few little pods on it see the pics.







    Thanks all.
    I hate slugs!!
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  • #2
    Well, as far as I'm aware that isn't a gooseberry bush, but I can't offer any clue as to what it is!

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    • #3
      It looks to me like either a tomitillo or a cape gooseberry. Tomitillos are the original tomatoes from south america and are used in salsas they are either green or purple, cape gooseberries are bright orange, both form pods and the fruits are inside.
      Hope that helps. Miffyx
      When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown

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      • #4
        Not sure but it looks like a tomatillo to me.
        A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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        • #5
          From the flower it's almost certainly a cape gooseberry (Physalis)
          "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."-- Abraham Lincoln

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          • #6
            yep, I think cape gooseberry too!

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            • #7
              Cape gooseberry...spot on folks!!!..

              http://ventnorpermaculture.files.wor...rry_flower.jpg
              "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

              Location....Normandy France

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              • #8
                So - NEARLY a gooseberry bush then! You need a really hot summer for the fruit to be sweet enough to eat but they make those gorgeous orange chinese lanterns in autumn and are brilliant for that alone.
                Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                • #9
                  Remember it's a perennial..and you need to keep it indoors overwinter...next year you should have a wonderful crop!!!!
                  "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                  Location....Normandy France

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                  • #10
                    Great Ill remember that then. So best to keep it in a pot?!
                    I hate slugs!!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by teamladd View Post
                      So best to keep it in a pot?!
                      I grew mine in grow bags in the greenhouse and they died off in the winter cos I stopped watering them not knowing they were perennials- and the greenhouse was unheated.

                      I wonder what other peeps do????
                      "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                      Location....Normandy France

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                      • #12
                        The plant has grown loads in the few weeks I have had it I def dont want to loose it, so if anyone has any advice that would be great.
                        I hate slugs!!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by teamladd View Post
                          if anyone has any advice that would be great.
                          have a go with your search button.
                          here's an older thread: http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...oes_14154.html
                          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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