Gooseberry bush?

mrbadexample

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

Yay! not just gooseberries, but FREE gooseberries!!!

Yes, and only a 400+ mile round trip to collect them! :j :rolleyes:

But it did give me an excuse to take the folks out for a meal and drop some flowers in for Grannybadexample.

mrbadexample

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

The plant on the left looks particularly fab!

That's the red variety, which is supposedly more resistant (or less appealing) to the sawfly larvae. The yellow one has a bit of a plague of aphids at the moment (especially in areas of new growth). I'm told they can be washed off with a bit of soapy water, so that's a job for the weekend. Hopefully it will perk up a bit after that.

nodwah

Congratulations, your gooseberry is much bigger that my husband's (but he has more!!!)

mrbadexample

crutches wrote: »

be wary,I have a gooseberry bush in my garden...............................

and we have EIGHT children!

This scares me a little. :eek:

mrbadexample

nodwah wrote: »

Congratulations, your gooseberry is much bigger that my husband's (but he has more!!!)

:shhh: It's actually much enlarged in the photo.

ILikeFreebies

I'm a bit late with this one, last spring we bought several bare roots in a box from Morrisons. One Gooseberry, one Blackcurrant and a box with two Rsaberry canes. They were about £1.50 each and all have grown. Hoping for first fruit this year, a handfull gooseberries have formed (never saw any flowers :S) but the Blackcurrant has a lot of flowers forming and the two large Rasberry canes are covered in flowers, two shorter canes less so, which look like they may open soon. Also won some Blackcurrant cuttings from a Ribena competition late last year. Just stuck them in the ground and watered them a bit, one is doing really well, another has started to grow but the third isn't looking interested.

What I'm trying to say is that the boxed roots you can get from supermarkets/poundland/Wilkinsons are a good cheap option if you don't expect fruit the year you plant them. Cuttings can also work too.

mrbadexample

Well, it finally stopped raining for long enough for me to get them planted:



Now I just need them to hurry up and grow lots of lovely gooseberries. :drool:

louise_1981

Ill have to show you the three that I have inherited! I was told they averaged 15lb of fruit a year, going to be giving it away by the end of the summer!!!!

Anyway, a question, these three are taking over a large proportion of my garden, added to which the previous owner had started lots of cuttings (must have really liked gooseberries!)

am I better to keep the "parent plants" and give them a harsh pruning, whilst moving into large pots, or would I be better potting up some of the smaller plants.

also when will these be ready to harvest, as there are some very large fruit on them already, but they seem rather hard at the minute!

thanks

Louise