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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Bodger on May 21, 2008, 18:01

Title: Gooseberrys
Post by: Bodger on May 21, 2008, 18:01

Could anyone give me an idea as to how gooseberry bushes are actually propagated ?

Title: Gooseberrys
Post by: gobs on May 21, 2008, 18:17

From suckers, like raspberries, These start to come from the base after flowering usually, early ones have some now. Don't worry if it doesn't come out with too much root, keep moist and it roots easily.

Title: Gooseberrys
Post by: Bodger on May 21, 2008, 18:31

We have a gooseberry bush here that was here twenty years ago when we first arrived. We have never done a thing to it but each year we get a good crop off it, i was thinking about getting a few more plants from it.

Thanks gobs :D

Title: Gooseberrys
Post by: gobs on May 21, 2008, 18:37

Welcome, Sir. :D

I can't remember how long they usually go for, but sounds like time to think ahead, who knows how old it is. :lol:

Title: Gooseberrys
Post by: Snap Dragon on May 21, 2008, 18:37

My Mum has a gooseberry plant that is just forming little fruits... they are a red/green colour but the label says it grows green fruits.

Are all baby goosegogs this colour or was hers labelled incorrectly? (Apparently Dad doesn't like red ones!)

Sorry to thread hijack!  :oops:

Title: Gooseberrys
Post by: DD. on May 21, 2008, 18:48

Cuttings,  that's how I did mine.

12" of this year's growth in October, well ripe. Sloping cut at top, square at bottom.

Cut wedge shape trench & stick about 2" sand in the bottom, strip all but about 4 buds off the cutting, leaving the top one. Stick in the trench with lowest remaining bud about 2" above soil level.

Fill in trench with soil, leave for a year & put in final postion next October.

Title: Gooseberrys
Post by: gobs on May 22, 2008, 09:50

Quote from: "Snap Dragon"

My Mum has a gooseberry plant that is just forming little fruits... they are a red/green colour but the label says it grows green fruits.

Are all baby goosegogs this colour or was hers labelled incorrectly? (Apparently Dad doesn't like red ones!)

Sorry to thread hijack!  :oops:

I always thought you harvest unripe gooseberries for greens, these are still firm when harvested for cooking mostly, but I do like them just to eat, too, best to get a culinary variety for this purpose, I'd think.

Title: Gooseberrys
Post by: DD. on May 22, 2008, 12:07

My 'green' ones have a redish tint to the young fruit, which it loses.

I also have a 'desert' gooseberry, which grows larger & sweeter fruit. This also has a red tint, but it stays there all the way to maturity.