In this video, I grow and cook cape gooseberries using them in a delicious chicken drumstick recipe that not only tastes great but is a unique and excellent use of homegrown produce.
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Hi, Mark. Love your channel, but I'll never have a garden as big as yours, ha-ha. I'm always looking for new, interesting ways to cook chicken, so this video inspired me to plant a few cape gooseberry seeds to start in my mini-greenhouse this winter (in California). I thought cape gooseberries were only good for making jam, and I don't know how. Your video showed me they're useful for other things, like a new chicken recipe. I'm very grateful to you for expanding what I cook for supper!
More of this style 2021 mate love from Houston Texas
Was interested in how to grow them especially in pots, unfortunately no growing info in this video
Thats actually groundcherry
Awesome! Thanks!
I bet that would be good ceviche too if you add a little lime and maybe some mango or cherry tomatoes or cucumber or all of them
Where can I buy the seeds or plants. Is the plant contain thorns. Thanks for sharing
I love these videos
Do you think this would grow well caged?
One of my favorite fruits, plant them once and they'll self seed. Your recipe looks tasty- we'll try it!
What about pruning for maximum fruits?
Good show Mate! Jessie USA
Love your channel, thank you!
It grows here in my country Sierra Leone as wild shrubs…we even don't eat it here..
Oh man, yes they do survive heat so well. I started with 1 plant in 2019 they survive through most of our gulf coast weather in swampy spring and extreme summer when my tomatoes die off that are in ground. Couple years later though and I have ground cherry plants…. everywhere…. so many plants now. They reseed themselves and whatever the birds have taken end up elsewhere.
I would try some honey instead of the granular sugar though. The flavor is much deeper and richer with it. And a squeeze of something citrus in the marinade too. It also goes well with apricot salsa as an addition to it. Groundcherry, apricot and basil salsa with some nice fire roasted chiles chopped up.
here in the netherlands we call it the "inca gold berry" i thought it is fun to let you know
have an awesome day Mark
Love the channel you are a great personality
You should make a well and grow maize or rice
Your worms & snakes seem extra feisty in Australia!
If the cap gooseberries are that good and healthy. I wonder if you could use the leaves for tea and or for compost tea in the garden
I love to have an answer and would like to say thank you in advance
In the US, we grow something called groundcherries or pineapple ground cherries. I have about 5 types of groundcherries.
Most people seem to think groundcherries and cape gooseberries are the same plant, but the more I look at them, the more they are not the same. The groundcherry seems a smaller berry. It is also NOT sour at all. It is, in fact, nice and crisp and sweet when ripe. The plants (leaves and growth habit) also seems quite different. I would be curious about their smell, since I have a few different plants with similar leaves but each variety has its own smell.
Also, it sounds like the cape gooseberry likes a cooler climate than the groundcherries, which do not even want to sprout until it is very warm. Mine come AFTER my eggplants, peppers, and tomatoes have already been growing, which makes it a perfect plant for the desert. Strangely enough, heat does not necessarily mean a lot of sun. It appreciates some shade, but then here, our sun is so intense, anything not shaded burns up. We just pop our groundcherries right into our mouths, they are so delicious.
I have started to be interested in finding true cape gooseberry seeds. It is supposedly a more upright and bigger plant than the groundcherries, so I shall be keeping my eye out for these fruits. I can also see that the leaf shape and stems looks a bit more tomatillo-like than groundcherry-like.
There's really no need to cut the base off cape gooseberries, they twist off with the husk. It's so easy you can do it with one hand!
I just bought some seeds! Thanks for the help!
I just received the cape gooseberry seeds today from "Seeds for Africa" and put 2 in soil in a tin for sprouting. then I will transplant the into a spot in my small garden. Thank you I'm going to try the chicken recipe. Bless you.
Funny that this video popped up because I just bought a Cape Gooseberry to try growing this season.