Light
Full sun in an open position.
Learn how to care for your green friend
Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry
Physalis pruinosa · Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry
Vegetables · Planned variety
Meet your green friend.
Aunt Molly’s Ground Cherry bears small golden-orange fruit inside papery husks.
A space where it can thrive
Grow as a cultivated garden crop in a bed or suitably sized container. The illustrated nursery pot is a presentation, not a recommendation for the mature plant’s root space.
Ask about availabilityAvailability, size, pot and price will be confirmed in store. Pictures illustrate the plant type.
Studio illustration. Appearance varies with age, variety and growing conditions.
Your care routine
Watering
Water regularly, allowing excess moisture to drain.
Soil & drainage
Warm, fertile, well-drained soil or a large container.
Temperature
Frost-tender crop: start with warmth and move outside only after cold weather has passed.
Planting
Start indoors; transplant when nights stay above about 10°C. Cage or stake spreading branches.
Harvest
Collect ripe golden-orange ground cherries once they drop inside their papery husks. Do not eat unripe green fruit.
Through the seasons
This is a ground cherry, not Toma Verde tomatillo. Cage spreading shoots and harvest only ripe golden fruit.
When your plant needs help
- Harvest ripe golden fruit that has dropped in its husk. It is a ground cherry, not a green-harvest salsa tomatillo.
Pets & little ones
Harvest only the appropriate ripe or prepared edible part. Do not eat leaves or stems. Keep plant material away from children and pets; never use a photo suggestion alone as an edibility check.
Grow with your neighbourhood store.
Independent, family-owned and right here in Uptown New Westminster. Browse before your visit and keep this guide handy at home.
Visit The Golden BazaarCare references
Guidance is a starting point. Adjust watering to your plant, pot, light and season; follow fertilizer labels and check outdoor cultivar hardiness.