Growing Physalis is so easy

Strawberry physalis is an annual fruit plant and growing physalis in our middle zone is quite possible.

Its bushes are low with side shoots strewn with fruits. The yellow cup with the fruit is yellow, not very decorative, but the fruits are amazingly aromatic and no less healthy. Sourish-sweet, medium-sized amber berries with a strawberry aroma are eaten fresh and, for example, made into very piquant jam.

This physalis can reproduce by self-sowing - from overwintered carrion. But at the same time it is necessary to thin out too frequent seedlings. And not all of the fruits on such plants have time to ripen. That is why growing physalis seedlings is still more profitable for obtaining maximum yield. It is advisable to make supports for physalis branches, because from the weight of the harvest they can bend to the ground, and from wet soil and poor ventilation the calyxes can rot.

To obtain physalis seedlings, sowing is carried out, preferably in pots, in the second or third decade of April, and after frost the seedlings are planted in open ground. Before the seedlings take root, they need protection from the hot sun and good regular watering. This physalis is not planted; the fruits are formed on the lateral branches. And at the end of summer, the shoots can be pinched so that all existing ovaries ripen.