Maybe you can help me? Have a wild plant growing here in Texas. All parts are identical to ground/husk cherry, with the exception of the fruit color, which is purple. I’ve searched and cannot find any references.
Fair warning that they cause a lot of gastrointestinal distress in most people, and you'll never be rid of them if you plant them in the ground because they'll regrow from any scrap of tuber that you fail to dig up. Try them in 5+ gallon containers and in moderation until you've determined that you can eat them without...problems.
Nice ideas, but most of your list are orchard trees, so they would take years until producing a crop. I think our podcaster was focusing more on garden produce.
@Kaila999 horse radish takes very short amount of time. Elderberry is pretty quick to produce considering how big they get. Mulberry is a weed tree, and grows so fast. Trees are an investment that will give back every yr with minimal work. Both trees and annual veggies are great for food security.
Toma‐tee-oh not Tom a till o. You can but them at every grocery store where I live, they are a regular part of Tex-mex cuisine. Verde salsas, green enchilada sauce, roasted in soup. Don't listen to people who don't know how to use a plant when deciding whether or not you want to grow it. Heads up, get fruit you do have to have 2 plants, and you can also grow ground cherries which are like a smaller sweet version.
Here in the US, tomatillos, purple potatoes, and yellow watermelon are very common. I am in Seattle and my sister is in north central Florida, we can both find these items. You may also wish to look in Asian Grocery stores, I can find Gooseberry's there seasonally.
I have bought tomatillos at Superstore before! They only had a small quantity and I don’t usually see them. But the plants are very productive so it’s easy to grow a large quantity to make salsa verde. But I’ve never seen purple tomatillos at the store. Ground cherries are also a rare find but can be grown just as easily.
Salsify! Delicious roots that kind of taste like oysters (and the gorgeous flowers as well as the young tender leaves are edible, too!) I also adore the young tender seed pods (as well as the flowers) of radishes. My friends always ask me about this "yummy little bean with the spicy pop" 😋
@@GardeningInCanada I'm in zone 6a/b and they are cool weather loving vegetables. I sow them early throughout March as soon as the soil is starting to warm up a little and then just cover them if cold spells are expected. My average last frost date is April 20. The roots take about 100-120 days to harvest.
Your video was just the thing to cheer us up on a cold evening!. I love broad beans which do well in Nova Scotia and I leave them in the ground and get a second crop in august/september. And I prefer pole beans/scarlet runners in particular, to bush beans but you have to grow these yourself. Hummingbirds like them too. Sometimes farmers markets have them but not reliably. Gooseberries are good in pies.
I was considering growing a little of the multi coloured Swiss Chard this year. I read that it tastes better than celery. Thanks for the video, Ashley, and I hope you're able to stay warm!! ❤
@@maggiesmith979 That's my plan - in boxes on the deck railing. Pictures of it look pretty good, and it'll be decorative as well as tasty. I'm just north of Toronto.
Apply a high-nitrogen, bioavailable fertilizer, like fish, right after you harvest to support stalk regrowth. You'll be able to eat off the same chard plants for ages.
@@jjd13579 Good idea! I much prefer natural fertilizer over the chemical ones. Lots of fish fertilizer, bone and blood meal for my gardens! LOL Best wishes to you!
Great video! Had a lot of fun with Cucamelons this year, ended up with vines all through my gardens and more fruits can I could consume. I collected the tubers and hope to start them again in the spring. Will definitley check out some of the others you mentioned. Never realized I'm growing so many edible flowers either.
I use gooseberries as a rhubarb substitute in recipes. They make an excellent pie with a scoop of homemade ice cream! They can vary in texture by season, and If they are too juicy, I use some instant tapioca to thicken the filling (a trick my grandmother taught me).
Tomatillos are very widely available in the grocery store in the United States. I tend to grow a lot of them as I make huge batches of Verde sauce which I preserve for use all year long. I use the sauce to make Pork Verde and Chicken enchiladas. Both are very yummy dishes to enjoy.
The gooseberries you mentioned (being the same basic thing as tomatilloes) and the ones you showed are very different. One is the ribus genus, the other is solanum (nightshade, deadly nightshade, tomato, husk tomatoes etc)
Many grocery stores in the US have tomatillos, especially if there is a sizable Mexican population in the area. They aren't eaten straight up, as far as I know, but are used in sauces.
Most commonly used for salsa verde, which freezes or cans quite well. Just FYI that you generally need to grow two or more tomatillo plants close to each other because you need to cross-pollinate from different plants for fruit set. That means that people usually either have zero tomatillos because they only grew one plant, or all the tomatillos because they grew enough plants for pollination and now have multiple pounds of fruit per week...
I’ve got a small gooseberry bush. My mom would make cold sweet soup using them in the summer. I can’t wait for it to produce more so that I too can make soup.
Some are interesting and agree and definitely grow some of these because i know where they come from. However tomatillos can be found everywhere at the stores where was raised and can find any time i go visit family in the southwest. I would probably say (most likely) can’t find in a store.
gooseberries can be hard to prepare so many people dont use them. we like to use a clean fingernail clipper and use it to remove the stem and flower bud from each gooseberry or currant.
Maybe where you are, but here in PNW US, I've purchased flowers in packets at the grocery (Safeway and Kroger). Cauliflower is sold in green, orange and purple as well as white. Tomatillos are always available at every grocery around here, and "cape gooseberries" which are cousins of tomatillos show up seasonally. We also get colored roots commonly, yellow, striped beets, purple and yellow carrots, and purple potatoes. Just wait, you will get them as more foodies request them. YOU NEED to buy them though, or they won't be reordered.
Cape gooseberries! Not to be confused with gooseberries (as shown here) are an excellent choice that you can't get in most grocery stores. They are closely related to the tomatillo but taste sweet like a fruit. They are yellow to orange in colour, the size of or smaller than a cherry tomato. Fleshier than a cherry tomato but sweeter.
Sumac, ramps, may apples, giant puffball mushrooms, chicken of the woods, all grow wild here in northeast ohio. You can propagate most of them easily. I also grow wild garlic in pots and wild onions in my flower beds.
haskapberries and saskatoonberries! i see jams at the farmers market, heck even costco, but never fresh. and i guess all the 'weeds' in the garden that are edible. not quite a vegetable, but ive also seen kits for mushrooms like lionsmane that i never see at the store, i'd love to know how they do in zone 3/4!!
Maybe because i live in the Netherlands but i csn get these at my farmers store. And the supermarkets. Especially the bigger ones. I do like togeow my own like the edible flowers but thats cause it gives me alot of peace geowing some of my own. Sundew has been available in grocery stores gere for over ten years sure 20 years now. 😅 We grow loads of potatoes here so i love growing the weirder colours, and buying normal colour roots. Glad you nade people aware of the things you mentioned. For me the ine thing i cant get in the grocery store is cuban oregano. We oove it in stews and soups. Mmm.
Thanks for sharing. Very spoiled living in California in US but several I can’t get in markets. Can get many in farmers market? Fava beans not usually found in either grocery or farmers market
Scarlet runner beans are a fava bean. The pods when small can be used like green beans and are very tasty. The mature beans are large variegated pink and deep purple. The flowers are edible. Scarlet runner bean seeds can also be found as bush beans and not just the climbing form. The roots are hardy to USDA Zone 8 can be dug up and overwintered so you can get a head start in planting.
Scarlet runners are *not* fava beans! Favas are the original European bean, somewhat lima bean shaped but much larger and unrelated. When eaten green, they are often called broad beans. Favas like cool temperatures and are planted in late winter in Italy to be eaten in spring. This tactic might work in California. IIRC, in the region of Rome favas are planted in February and harvested in May. Here in Toronto, I plant them in April and harvest in July. Scarlet runners are different species in the same genus as common beans. They originated at higher elevations in Central America and do better in cool climates. The seeds are huge and are stay whole when cooked in soups and stews. One way to tell the two species apart is that the seed leaves (cotyledons) emerge from the soil in common beans but stay underground in scarlet runners. IIRC Vicia faba: fava bean, broad bean Phaseolus coccineus: scarlet runners Phaseolus vulgarus: common, bush, pole, snap, string, wax, green, dry etc beans. Phaseolus lunatus: lima beans
In addition to the flowers, nasturtium seeds and leaves are also edible. I generally only use the flowers though. Large leaves can make nice plates, or you can line a plate with the leaves and serve whatever you feel is appropriate on top (cheeses, salad, crudites, etc.)
I actually can find colored carrots and potatoes down here in Illinois. They're often at Walmart....though the carrots are only in baby carrot form from the organic section
Where I am tomatillos are in the solanacea family with tomatoes and peppers, and gooseberries are in the same family with currants. Is there a gooseberry type fruit in the solanacea family that you are refering too?
I have recently heard of oca, a South American tuber. Apparently they grow them in New Zealand a lot and they have started growing it in uk, don’t know what the grow days is on it, and haven’t found seeds or tubers in Canada yet.
Great video! Out of curiosity, why would these not be found in the grocery store? I have indeed never seen them, but I'm very curious now. Is it because of being very niche, or are there any preservation / nutritional reasons why they are not sold?
A lot of it has to do with shelf life. So people who see these commonly on their shelves would have farms local to the area. Places that don’t see it obviously travel time is the problem. Other reason you might not see some of these days is because of the cost to produce. For example, you have to start from seed and then transplant outdoors there’s lots of different equipment involved with that.
Things not in my grocery store that I am growing, haven’t been able to harvest from all yet is, Lovage, good king Henry, Kiwi berries and elderberries.
Tomatillos are common in the Southern US, especially where there is a Latin population. Gooseberries are illegal in certain states in the US due to it white pine rust.
ok CAPE gooseberries are like tomatillos and like ground cherries. the gooseberries you showed aren't even a little related. no idea how your gooseberries taste because I can't grow them, but so far as tomatillos go they're wonderful *cooked* savory dish things and always worth it for salsa verde- but do you not have Mexican grocery stores up there?
Gooseberries (the kind you showed) are not related to tomatillos! The gooseberries that grow on perennial bushes are part of the genus Ribes and are related to redcurrants and blackcurrants. An unrelated crop is called cape gooseberry and is in the genus Physalis along with tomatillos and other groundcherries. Both cape gooseberries and their relatives have a papery husk. True gooseberries do not have a husk, but have a pointed nub at the bottom of the fruit.
I recognize you are in Canada, but colored kale, tomatillos, and colored root vegetables can be found in grocery stores in Austin, TX. You just have to find the right grocery stores. Also the weird “melons” that aren’t really melons like Pepino and Horned Melon, and even occasionally exotic root vegetables like Oca
Um, those are not the sort of gooseberries that are in the same family as tomatillos. Tomatillos and Cape Goosberries (also called inca berry, uchilla, golden berry, and ground cherry) are both in the genus Physalis and tend to grow as annuals outside the tropics. However, what you have pictured is the plant called gooseberry in the genus Ribes with it's close relatives the currants. Domesticated ribes species are generally woody perennial bushes.
After checking out the other comments, I see a lot of folks had the same comment I did - that you can indeed get a lot of those in grocery stores in many parts of the US, so I can only offer my sympathy to Canadians.
@GardeningInCanada That's a shame. I assumed it was pretty standard and without really thinking about it, I would have assumed it was like this everywhere in the country (well maybe not very far north but you know).
I know day lilies are invasive but if you have them you should eat them. The buds and flowers are edible and I think are really delicious raw. The buds can be dehydrated and saved to put in soup. Just make sure you are not eating Asian lilies which are toxic.
@@GardeningInCanada The bulbs from the Asiatic and Oriental Lily are edible. They taste great in a stir fry but I find the preparation a little too tactile. Peeling apart the tiny bulbs, then blanching them in boiling water prior to frying takes time and patience. Which I lack most of the time LOL. I have added them raw to green salads but prefer them cooked.
Try "Edibles I Grow Since I Can't Buy Them at My Local Grocers". Colored greens, roots, and tomatillo are not hard to find in season in the Eastern US.
@@GardeningInCanada In Germany we can start the yacon rhizomes in February indoors. My neighbors, friends and I like to eat the tubers in salads. Even some market gardeners produce yacon.
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I thought I mentioned I have a video on this in the video. I could never explain everything I talk about every video it would be much to long. ruclips.net/video/WRXrdzHomzE/видео.htmlsi=qTbpfRofb1iv-fUU
Sorry but Gooseberries (family Grossulariaceae) and Tomatillos (Physalis philadelphica) (were you thinking about Peruvian groundcherry (Physalis peruviana)?) have nothing in common besides being delicious.
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Maybe you can help me? Have a wild plant growing here in Texas. All parts are identical to ground/husk cherry, with the exception of the fruit color, which is purple. I’ve searched and cannot find any references.
Ground cherries!!
Also Borage flowers are purpley blue and taste like cucumber, awesome in drinks and salads.
Great rec !
I love to garnish cocktails with borage flowers
They sell ground cherries in the supermarket in the supermarket here in the Netherlands. 😢
Sunchokes are underrated. Absolutely love them.
Yes they are!
Fair warning that they cause a lot of gastrointestinal distress in most people, and you'll never be rid of them if you plant them in the ground because they'll regrow from any scrap of tuber that you fail to dig up. Try them in 5+ gallon containers and in moderation until you've determined that you can eat them without...problems.
Horse radish, elderberry, mulberry, Quince, paw paw are other edibles not found in store. These would bring customers to your stand if grown.
Oh yes! Great ideas
I have seen horseradish at store just once but yes all you mentioned. I do grow horseradish as well
@@psynurseI was just about to say seen horseradish in stores. But yeah I grew it too.
Nice ideas, but most of your list are orchard trees, so they would take years until producing a crop. I think our podcaster was focusing more on garden produce.
@Kaila999 horse radish takes very short amount of time. Elderberry is pretty quick to produce considering how big they get. Mulberry is a weed tree, and grows so fast. Trees are an investment that will give back every yr with minimal work. Both trees and annual veggies are great for food security.
Toma‐tee-oh not Tom a till o.
You can but them at every grocery store where I live, they are a regular part of Tex-mex cuisine. Verde salsas, green enchilada sauce, roasted in soup.
Don't listen to people who don't know how to use a plant when deciding whether or not you want to grow it.
Heads up, get fruit you do have to have 2 plants, and you can also grow ground cherries which are like a smaller sweet version.
Saskatoon berries are not widely available outside the prairies. The window to pic them is short, but they are really yummy!
Appreciated the information, thanks for sharing.
In california we have loquat trees. They grow huge and fast and can product a lot of fruit. Never can get them in the grocery store though!
Oh yes! I’ve seen those. So impressive
Montreal area here! We have colored carrots, colored kale, cucamelons and tomatillo in grocery stores 😊
Here in the US, tomatillos, purple potatoes, and yellow watermelon are very common. I am in Seattle and my sister is in north central Florida, we can both find these items. You may also wish to look in Asian Grocery stores, I can find Gooseberry's there seasonally.
Thanks for the tip about gooseberries. There are many Asian grocery stores in my area and I love gooseberries.
Interesting!
I can frequently find purple potatoes, gooseberries, colored carrots, non traditional melons in Philadelphia area
Hispanic grocers always have tomatillos. They are for sauces and salsas.
In SoCal as well.
I like taking unusual veggies to parties, last year it was Midnight Snack cherry tomatoes, those were a big hit!
Love my gooseberry jam. Only got three bushes but wow do they produce lots, wicked thorns
I have bought tomatillos at Superstore before! They only had a small quantity and I don’t usually see them. But the plants are very productive so it’s easy to grow a large quantity to make salsa verde. But I’ve never seen purple tomatillos at the store. Ground cherries are also a rare find but can be grown just as easily.
Good to know!
I’ve seen lots of groundcherries at sprouts
Salsify! Delicious roots that kind of taste like oysters (and the gorgeous flowers as well as the young tender leaves are edible, too!)
I also adore the young tender seed pods (as well as the flowers) of radishes. My friends always ask me about this "yummy little bean with the spicy pop" 😋
Oh! How interesting!!! What zone are you in eye growing these in?
@@GardeningInCanada I'm in zone 6a/b and they are cool weather loving vegetables. I sow them early throughout March as soon as the soil is starting to warm up a little and then just cover them if cold spells are expected. My average last frost date is April 20. The roots take about 100-120 days to harvest.
Your video was just the thing to cheer us up on a cold evening!. I love broad beans which do well in Nova Scotia and I leave them in the ground and get a second crop in august/september. And I prefer pole beans/scarlet runners in particular, to bush beans but you have to grow these yourself. Hummingbirds like them too. Sometimes farmers markets have them but not reliably. Gooseberries are good in pies.
Still freezing cold in your neck of the woods?
I was considering growing a little of the multi coloured Swiss Chard this year. I read that it tastes better than celery.
Thanks for the video, Ashley, and I hope you're able to stay warm!! ❤
Yes! That’s an awesome idea. The root colour of those plants ❤
When I lived in zone 7 I had chard on my porch and it was still alive with snow on it.
@@maggiesmith979 That's my plan - in boxes on the deck railing. Pictures of it look pretty good, and it'll be decorative as well as tasty. I'm just north of Toronto.
Apply a high-nitrogen, bioavailable fertilizer, like fish, right after you harvest to support stalk regrowth. You'll be able to eat off the same chard plants for ages.
@@jjd13579 Good idea! I much prefer natural fertilizer over the chemical ones. Lots of fish fertilizer, bone and blood meal for my gardens! LOL Best wishes to you!
Great video! Had a lot of fun with Cucamelons this year, ended up with vines all through my gardens and more fruits can I could consume. I collected the tubers and hope to start them again in the spring. Will definitley check out some of the others you mentioned. Never realized I'm growing so many edible flowers either.
That's a great idea!
Love growing different colors!
I totally agree!
I use gooseberries as a rhubarb substitute in recipes. They make an excellent pie with a scoop of homemade ice cream! They can vary in texture by season, and If they are too juicy, I use some instant tapioca to thicken the filling (a trick my grandmother taught me).
FYI, tomatillas are regularly available at the Food Lions in the Mid-Atlantic (in late summer and fall)
Interesting!
Tomatillos are very widely available in the grocery store in the United States. I tend to grow a lot of them as I make huge batches of Verde sauce which I preserve for use all year long. I use the sauce to make Pork Verde and Chicken enchiladas. Both are very yummy dishes to enjoy.
The gooseberries you mentioned (being the same basic thing as tomatilloes) and the ones you showed are very different. One is the ribus genus, the other is solanum (nightshade, deadly nightshade, tomato, husk tomatoes etc)
They are that’s correct. I couldn’t find any footage of the capes
Very interesting veggies. Thanks for sharing Ashley!
You are so welcome!
tomatillos are best when cooked and then turned into salsa. they can also be found at many mexican/hispanic grocery stores.
Many grocery stores in the US have tomatillos, especially if there is a sizable Mexican population in the area. They aren't eaten straight up, as far as I know, but are used in sauces.
Most commonly used for salsa verde, which freezes or cans quite well. Just FYI that you generally need to grow two or more tomatillo plants close to each other because you need to cross-pollinate from different plants for fruit set. That means that people usually either have zero tomatillos because they only grew one plant, or all the tomatillos because they grew enough plants for pollination and now have multiple pounds of fruit per week...
I use them in green chile stew as well. I'm sure others use them in various stew-like dishes, in addition to salsas.
A nice firm green tomatillo, raw, cut into thin wedges, adds a nice texture and a bit of tartness to a burrito or a salad.
Tomatillos are in our grocery stores in NY. It is great in salsa verde.
Good to know!
I’ve got a small gooseberry bush. My mom would make cold sweet soup using them in the summer. I can’t wait for it to produce more so that I too can make soup.
Some are interesting and agree and definitely grow some of these because i know where they come from. However tomatillos can be found everywhere at the stores where was raised and can find any time i go visit family in the southwest. I would probably say (most likely) can’t find in a store.
I grow gooseberries and tomatillo’s…going to try growing melons this year. Cheers from Ottawa 🍁
They do sell ground cherries at the grocery store here sometimes. Tomatillos I haven't seen but they sell them at my local farmer's market.
In Germany we have tons of red and green gooseberries. So delicious with meringue 😊
gooseberries can be hard to prepare so many people dont use them. we like to use a clean fingernail clipper and use it to remove the stem and flower bud from each gooseberry or currant.
Certain US states have restrictions on gooseberries (and currants) so always good to check before trying plant.
Kalettes... have only seen them at Costco in the fall but their leaves make great kale chips
Great ideas for the coming season!
I want to add Pepino (Solanum muricatum) to the list.
Sounds great!
In BC tomatillos are readily available. Used in Mexican sauces.
Ohh im jealous
In Vancouver we get several of these in stores but growing is always better❤
I've occasionally found gooseberries in a large grocery chain, Sobeys here on PEI, in very small packages, lol.
And probably a paycheque 😅
Probably, lololo. I don't think I looked at the price. I have gooseberries growing here.@@GardeningInCanada
Maybe where you are, but here in PNW US, I've purchased flowers in packets at the grocery (Safeway and Kroger). Cauliflower is sold in green, orange and purple as well as white. Tomatillos are always available at every grocery around here, and "cape gooseberries" which are cousins of tomatillos show up seasonally. We also get colored roots commonly, yellow, striped beets, purple and yellow carrots, and purple potatoes. Just wait, you will get them as more foodies request them. YOU NEED to buy them though, or they won't be reordered.
Cape gooseberries! Not to be confused with gooseberries (as shown here) are an excellent choice that you can't get in most grocery stores. They are closely related to the tomatillo but taste sweet like a fruit. They are yellow to orange in colour, the size of or smaller than a cherry tomato. Fleshier than a cherry tomato but sweeter.
The cape goose berries almost looked like mini nectarines on the inside 🤤
They self seed like crazy, plant once and never again!
Are Cape Gooseberries the same as a Ground Cherry that had a husk like a tomatillo?
@@normacone3124 yes- they're the same. They go for a lot of $ around here, but I've only seen them for sale at farmers markets.
@normacone3124 yes! Also known as Physallis
Great video; thanks for sharing! 🤗
Thanks for watching!
Sumac, ramps, may apples, giant puffball mushrooms, chicken of the woods, all grow wild here in northeast ohio. You can propagate most of them easily. I also grow wild garlic in pots and wild onions in my flower beds.
haskapberries and saskatoonberries! i see jams at the farmers market, heck even costco, but never fresh. and i guess all the 'weeds' in the garden that are edible. not quite a vegetable, but ive also seen kits for mushrooms like lionsmane that i never see at the store, i'd love to know how they do in zone 3/4!!
Maybe because i live in the Netherlands but i csn get these at my farmers store. And the supermarkets. Especially the bigger ones. I do like togeow my own like the edible flowers but thats cause it gives me alot of peace geowing some of my own. Sundew has been available in grocery stores gere for over ten years sure 20 years now. 😅 We grow loads of potatoes here so i love growing the weirder colours, and buying normal colour roots. Glad you nade people aware of the things you mentioned. For me the ine thing i cant get in the grocery store is cuban oregano. We oove it in stews and soups. Mmm.
We do find tomatillos in our local grocery store (I'm in the U.S.)at a certain time of year. I find them inferior in the store, so I grow them myself.
Tomatillos are sold at our grocery store in Minnesota and at our farmers markets.
Thanks for sharing. Very spoiled living in California in US but several I can’t get in markets. Can get many in farmers market? Fava beans not usually found in either grocery or farmers market
Interesting!
Scarlet runner beans are a fava bean. The pods when small can be used like green beans and are very tasty. The mature beans are large variegated pink and deep purple. The flowers are edible. Scarlet runner bean seeds can also be found as bush beans and not just the climbing form. The roots are hardy to USDA Zone 8 can be dug up and overwintered so you can get a head start in planting.
Scarlet runners are *not* fava beans! Favas are the original European bean, somewhat lima bean shaped but much larger and unrelated. When eaten green, they are often called broad beans. Favas like cool temperatures and are planted in late winter in Italy to be eaten in spring. This tactic might work in California. IIRC, in the region of Rome favas are planted in February and harvested in May. Here in Toronto, I plant them in April and harvest in July.
Scarlet runners are different species in the same genus as common beans. They originated at higher elevations in Central America and do better in cool climates. The seeds are huge and are stay whole when cooked in soups and stews. One way to tell the two species apart is that the seed leaves (cotyledons) emerge from the soil in common beans but stay underground in scarlet runners.
IIRC
Vicia faba: fava bean, broad bean
Phaseolus coccineus: scarlet runners
Phaseolus vulgarus: common, bush, pole, snap, string, wax, green, dry etc beans.
Phaseolus lunatus: lima beans
I stand corrected. :)
In addition to the flowers, nasturtium seeds and leaves are also edible. I generally only use the flowers though. Large leaves can make nice plates, or you can line a plate with the leaves and serve whatever you feel is appropriate on top (cheeses, salad, crudites, etc.)
Thanks for the tips!
Nasturtium seed pods picked immature can be pickled in vinegar and taste very much like capers.
Tomatillos are a common item in the southwest US grocery stores. I'm growing some from store brought fruit. The fruit is less than a dollar a pound.
We have tomatillos pretty much year round in Maryland, most every store.
I actually can find colored carrots and potatoes down here in Illinois. They're often at Walmart....though the carrots are only in baby carrot form from the organic section
That’s way to cool
Where I am tomatillos are in the solanacea family with tomatoes and peppers, and gooseberries are in the same family with currants. Is there a gooseberry type fruit in the solanacea family that you are refering too?
I have recently heard of oca, a South American tuber. Apparently they grow them in New Zealand a lot and they have started growing it in uk, don’t know what the grow days is on it, and haven’t found seeds or tubers in Canada yet.
Oh yes! I’ve heard the taste is unique
New Zealnd yams or oca is a great tasting easy to grow tuber
I live in a small own, but tomatillo are always available in the grocery
Great video! Out of curiosity, why would these not be found in the grocery store? I have indeed never seen them, but I'm very curious now. Is it because of being very niche, or are there any preservation / nutritional reasons why they are not sold?
A lot of it has to do with shelf life. So people who see these commonly on their shelves would have farms local to the area. Places that don’t see it obviously travel time is the problem. Other reason you might not see some of these days is because of the cost to produce. For example, you have to start from seed and then transplant outdoors there’s lots of different equipment involved with that.
@@GardeningInCanada got it! Super interesting to find out about this, thanks for the answer!
Good morning 🌅❤
Good morning!
@@GardeningInCanada you are like a angel 😇
Things not in my grocery store that I am growing, haven’t been able to harvest from all yet is, Lovage, good king Henry, Kiwi berries and elderberries.
Tomatillos are common in the Southern US, especially where there is a Latin population. Gooseberries are illegal in certain states in the US due to it white pine rust.
Fresh loganberries. I know you can get yoghurt with it in, but never the fresh fruit and they are delicious
Ooo! Never heard of that.
You lightly mentioned that adding zinc would help keep colored vegetables their original color.
How do I naturally add zinc?
ok CAPE gooseberries are like tomatillos and like ground cherries. the gooseberries you showed aren't even a little related.
no idea how your gooseberries taste because I can't grow them, but so far as tomatillos go they're wonderful *cooked* savory dish things and always worth it for salsa verde- but do you not have Mexican grocery stores up there?
Yes I didn’t have any cape footage. I can stand the taste of capes, or tomatillo 🥹
This is good to know
Gooseberry bushes also fix nitrogen. Win, win!
Gooseberries (the kind you showed) are not related to tomatillos! The gooseberries that grow on perennial bushes are part of the genus Ribes and are related to redcurrants and blackcurrants. An unrelated crop is called cape gooseberry and is in the genus Physalis along with tomatillos and other groundcherries. Both cape gooseberries and their relatives have a papery husk. True gooseberries do not have a husk, but have a pointed nub at the bottom of the fruit.
I recognize you are in Canada, but colored kale, tomatillos, and colored root vegetables can be found in grocery stores in Austin, TX. You just have to find the right grocery stores. Also the weird “melons” that aren’t really melons like Pepino and Horned Melon, and even occasionally exotic root vegetables like Oca
I see tomatillos in the grocery all the time. LasVegas
Lucky!
What watermelon is that you showed in the video?
Um, those are not the sort of gooseberries that are in the same family as tomatillos. Tomatillos and Cape Goosberries (also called inca berry, uchilla, golden berry, and ground cherry) are both in the genus Physalis and tend to grow as annuals outside the tropics. However, what you have pictured is the plant called gooseberry in the genus Ribes with it's close relatives the currants. Domesticated ribes species are generally woody perennial bushes.
I can get many of these in my local grocery store here in NY. 🤔
I clearly need to move 😅
After checking out the other comments, I see a lot of folks had the same comment I did - that you can indeed get a lot of those in grocery stores in many parts of the US, so I can only offer my sympathy to Canadians.
I'm a bit confused because I'm from Canada to and all of these are readily available in small and big grocery stores in my area 🤔
Must be a larger centre or milder climate?. I definitely do not have these
@GardeningInCanada That's a shame. I assumed it was pretty standard and without really thinking about it, I would have assumed it was like this everywhere in the country (well maybe not very far north but you know).
I was stunned last year to find tomatillos in my normal grocery store.
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I know day lilies are invasive but if you have them you should eat them. The buds and flowers are edible and I think are really delicious raw. The buds can be dehydrated and saved to put in soup. Just make sure you are not eating Asian lilies which are toxic.
That’s very true! That’s a very unique choice
I use daylily petals in candied form for edible cake decoration. Stunning and yummy!
@@GardeningInCanada The bulbs from the Asiatic and Oriental Lily are edible. They taste great in a stir fry but I find the preparation a little too tactile. Peeling apart the tiny bulbs, then blanching them in boiling water prior to frying takes time and patience. Which I lack most of the time LOL.
I have added them raw to green salads but prefer them cooked.
Day lilies also produce an edible, if small, tuber. These can be harvested when the plant goes dormant and then the plant can be replanted.
Saskatoons would be a good one to consider. More flavourful than blueberries.
Haskaps 10/10!
I have tomatillos in the fresh produce at my local Walmart in northern Ohio. 😂
Try "Edibles I Grow Since I Can't Buy Them at My Local Grocers". Colored greens, roots, and tomatillo are not hard to find in season in the Eastern US.
Did you mean cape gooseberries when talking about tomatillos?
Yes! Sorry.
@@GardeningInCanada nothing to be sorry about!
You used to be able to find different types of kale in the store back when kale was the latest health craze
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Tomatillos at every walmart ive been to in 6 different states.
Canadian are the only ones suffering 🥲
Yacon, again I'm recommending Yacon.
Haha yes! When do you start these
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In Germany we can start the yacon rhizomes in February indoors.
My neighbors, friends and I like to eat the tubers in salads.
Even some market gardeners produce yacon.
Raspberries other than red
Like the white ones!
N REGARDS TO MELONS , what is a GUDS OR GDE'S I? IF YOU ARE GOING TO USE INDUSTRY TERMS COULD YOU PLEASE HAVE THE COURTESY TO TELL THE VIEWER WHAT THEY MEAN. I attempted to look it up and can not find it! that is provided the CC translated or printed up the right letter because you said it so fast its hard to make out. thank you
I thought I mentioned I have a video on this in the video. I could never explain everything I talk about every video it would be much to long. ruclips.net/video/WRXrdzHomzE/видео.htmlsi=qTbpfRofb1iv-fUU
She had the definition on the screen
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Tomatillos are everywhere and cheap here in Georgia. Y'all haven't been overrun by the southern neighbors yet...
Hahaha clearly
For Ukraine: Vegetable chrysanthemum, goumi, mulberry, kale, malabar spinach, safflower, turnip; colourful carrots, radishes and beets too… 😅
Malabar spinach!!! Interesting
Hardy kiwi, little grape sized kiwi you just pop in your mouth
There are also arctic kiwis, which are even more cold hardy than hardy kiwis and just as delectable.
Oh yes!!! I have seen these
I hear that cucamelons are an acquired taste
Sorry but Gooseberries (family Grossulariaceae) and Tomatillos (Physalis philadelphica) (were you thinking about Peruvian groundcherry (Physalis peruviana)?) have nothing in common besides being delicious.
Takeaway from watching this video... American grocery stores > Canadian grocery stores
Yes from the comments section clearly wowzers
Not surprising. Most of our veggies, greens, non-root crops, are grown in the US.
It isn't pronounced "past-uh"
Regional dialects
wastes of time and effort, unless all you just want to do is to impress.
growing regular veggies and fruit is challenging enough.
grow some flowers