cape gooseberries

sclarke624 · « **on:** October 22, 2007, 17:07 »

I have loads of cape gooseberries in five pots. Thing is most of the 'lantern' cases are still green. Do you reckon they will eventually ripen up or will they die in the cold. I have read you have to be careful with them as they are poisonus when not properly ripe.

It is quite hard to find any information on these plants on the net, well the info I want about harvesting anyway. The ones we have had are just like the shop except one that was sour.

What is quite annoying is that I have read you harvest when they fall to the ground, when they are in pots that means looking around them and falling over them for me anyway.

ACatCalledElvis · « **Reply #1 on:** October 22, 2007, 18:09 »

I have cape gossberries under glass - ripened about a month ago - picked most off plants when turned yellow - and they taste good........we are now working on idea they they are biannual plants and will come back next year!

If your plants are outside I think you may have a problem - if under glass - you probably need to just keep on waiting

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gobs · « **Reply #2 on:** October 23, 2007, 06:58 »

I thought they were frost tender perennials.

ACatCalledElvis · « **Reply #3 on:** October 23, 2007, 08:40 »

So did I - but I have also read/been told that they come back - so they are in a frost free glasshouse - and we will see - nothing lost in trying!!

gobs · « **Reply #4 on:** October 23, 2007, 10:55 »

Look up perennial in Glossary, Elvis.

ACatCalledElvis · « **Reply #5 on:** October 23, 2007, 19:43 »

ahhhhhhh........been a bit busy recently.........err........

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gobs · « **Reply #6 on:** October 23, 2007, 19:46 »

That's Ok, we all are now and then. But it's there to use.

alan42 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 24, 2007, 01:32 »

i was told not to pick fruit but to wait for it to drop of the plant that is when it is totaly ripe and they can be left in the papery husk for weeks before going of. i was told that they will come back next year but it is just as easy to sow fresh seed.
alan

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