[Casey76]

As well as daft blackberries, I also have a daft gooseberry bush...





Last year is was a huge sprawling mess, and although I harvested a million and one red goosegogs it was overtaking everything else, so in October I took the loppers to it and hacked it back to within 6ins of the ground... (not exactly ideal I know, but) and hoped for the best.  This year it has really started to grow strongly again.  I removed all of the flower buds, so it could concentrate on growing stems.

But...

It is still in a daft place.

How easy are gooseberry bushes to move?  Will they tolerate being moved?  Could I actually put it into a container (a big one )

[mumofstig]

I'm not sure about a container idea, but it should move ok as long as you leave it till autumn and dig up as much of the rootball as you can I've moved one  OK in the past

[celjaci]

Worth trying but only in the dormant period Nov- Feb
and lifted with as much root as possible

Once lifted you could also take the opportunity to remove lower shoots to leave a clean 'leg' as this will make picking so much easier

[barney rubble]

a container will be fine for it, so long as its big enough, fed, watered and repotted when it needs it - all mine (of necessity) are in containers

[Casey76]

Thanks everyone

Unfortunately celjaci it has grown as a multistemmed bush/shrub without a central trunk (just like all of the red white and blackcurrant bushes - which aren't supposed to either).

I'm not sure how I could renovate it to be a proper "bush", though I might have a better idea once it is out of the ground :nods:

[savbo]

we moved 2 in the past month - not a good time but they're tough things - move with as much soil as poss to a pre-dug hole and WATER...



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