Cape Gooseberry

[veggiechicken]

I falls in the love camp too - in fact I falls in lots of places
This year's seedlings are underway - to replace Old Faithful who went to meet his maker last year

[VirginVegGrower]

These are horribly spreading plants in a tunnel. I made the mistake of growing them once, then discovered I didn't really like them. But they keep coming back every spring shooting up from roots in the paths where they seem to have got. They spread all over the staging and get tangled up with the tomatoes and peppers and things. You can cut them back but they are a real nuisance. It's one of those fruits which some people love but most dislike. I always find I take a taste and think 'what a wonderful flavour', only to be hit by an 'after taste' which is almost 'chemical'. I could never eat more than one fresh off the bush, unlike raspberries and blackberries where I could finish off most of the bush.
Have you ever noticed in those 'posh' restaurants where they put one, still in its 'wrapper', round the edge of the dessert plate, how most people end up leaving them untouched.
I guess I am so bitter about it as they LOOK as if they should taste wonderful given those gorgeous orange berries, but turn out to be a real disappointment! :]

I'm the one who always eats them off the fruit platters in hotels or at meetings. I love them, probably a good job, given what I've read

[ancee]

Me too VVG! I can't wait to be inundated with them - hurrah!

[binley100]

want to come and dig one up? I have two?

oi............

[VirginVegGrower]

oi............

Late to the party I wondered when you would...sorry mum

[binley100]

I've been a tad busy .........trying to sort out some wabbit defences.......

[VirginVegGrower]

I've been a tad busy .........trying to sort out some wabbit defences.......

I'll bring the lad over #woowhoo

[binley100]

I'd take Jake but he'd think it was a playmate to bring home ......#hedgehoginthe kitchen

[VirginVegGrower]

I'd take Jake but he'd think it was a playmate to bring home ......#hedgehoginthe kitchen

Rooty won't let you down

[southlondongardener]

I would guess they can survive if it doesn't get too cold. I saw one growing in Colombia once and they said that they got fruit every day of the year.