Fruiting vegetables · warm season
Ground cherry
Physalis pruinosa
Pineapple-sweet husk fruit that volunteers readily in Ohio gardens once established.
- When to plant in Ohio
- Start indoors April; transplant late May
- Harvest window
- August through frost, as husks drop
- Days to maturity
- 70–80
- Spacing
- 24 in.
- Light
- Full sun
How to grow it
Give it room—plants sprawl. Harvest from the ground when husks turn papery tan. Do not eat green fruit. A short tomato cage keeps the canopy off wet soil.
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Bell pepper 65–85 green; 80–100 colored
Jalapeño 70–80
Banana pepper 65–75
Eggplant 65–80 from transplant