We are now in the latter half of October here in Western Wisconsin and harvesting anything but corn or soybeans seems highly unlikely. But with out very wet year, we had a number of volunteer ground cherries magically appear. Sorting through the tall grass, we gathered about a cup and a half of fruit.

Ground cherries are related to tomatillos.

There are a number of ground cherry recipes on line (who knew?) and so I made a small batch of jam.

This was well worth the effort. I now understand the enthusiasm for ground cherry jam. I will have to find some of the dropped fruit and try to plant some in the garden next year.