How to Make an In-Ground Garden Bed Plus Planting Pineapple Ground Cherries
Channel: Growing Joy with Maria
Date: 30/06/2021

Thanks to our pod partners Espoma Organic and Territorial Seed Company. So excited to introduce you to my Plant Friend Melody, the woman I've been gardening with all season! Melody and I met through nextdoor.com when I moved to the Catskills and was looking for local plant friends, and she offered to help me in my first gardening season. She had a greenhouse she let me start my seeds in, and I ended up just gardening with her this summer! She has been gardening for decades with an AMAZING organic garden in her backyard filled with the most amazing plants- and today, she taught me how to make an in-ground garden bed out of nothing, with some very simple steps. I've only had experience with raised bed gardening so this is a totally new experience for me!
I first tasted pineapple ground cherries (otherwise known as husk cherries, they are a relative of tomatillos which are a relative of tomatoes) a couple of years ago and never forgot how insanely delicious they were. Like a pineapple flavored cherry tomato that was slightly firmer and a great snack to eat right off the plant, or put in salsas. When I saw that Territorial Seed Company had them in their catalogue it was the FIRST plant I ordered! I started these plants from seed in Melody's greenhouse and have slowly nurtured them to their 4 inch pots and were ready to be transplanted.

In this video you'll learn:
- about pineapple ground cherries (even though I kept accidentally calling them the wrong thing in the video!)
- how to make an in-ground garden bed
- our strategy for planting ground cherries 
- 3 week update after planting! 

Thanks to our sponsor partners: Espoma Organic and Territorial Seed Co
Suggested Products:
Pineapple Ground Cherry seeds: https://bit.ly/TSCpineapplegroundcherry
Espoma Garden Tone Fertilizer: https://bit.ly/espomagardentone 
Espoma Land & Sea Compost: https://bit.ly/Espomalandandsea

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