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    Looks like my gooseberry is putting out runners. There are a couple of new shoots appearing a bit away from the main plant. Can I do something with them or should I just pull up?

  • #2
    You could make more plants from them. They've probably rooted, so cut them from the main plant and dig them out.
    I had an old, congested gooseberry bush which I dug out, and it turned into about 8 plants in the process. The original bush split in two, so I had two plants right there, and then it had layered itself over the years, creating half a dozen new plants.

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    • #3
      More gooseberry plants! Fantastic!
      You can never have too many gooseberry plants!
      "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

      Location....Normandy France

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Nicos View Post
        More gooseberry plants! Fantastic!
        You can never have too many gooseberry plants!
        I have too many gooseberry plants. Or at least too many of the same variety. I have four Hinnonmaki red, and so they all ripen all at once every year. Picking them before they go over is a real ordeal. Eating them all can be somewhat challenging, too. I still have some in the freezer from last year.

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        • #5
          Gooseberiries layer very easily. I just put a brick on a branch to hold it in contact with the ground and it will root.
          I have a couple that I have treat as half standards which makes them very easy to pick.
          My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

          Diversify & prosper


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          • #6
            You know something?
            I have never seen fresh gooseberries for sale here in France!
            Nor frozen ones gone to think of it!
            "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

            Location....Normandy France

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Nicos View Post
              You know something?
              I have never seen fresh gooseberries for sale here in France!
              Nor frozen ones gone to think of it!
              I never see them in the UK either (not that I look very hard).

              I pinched a couple of unknown variety from my mate in Norfolk - they grow huge in his garden and this year I should get my first proper crop so looking forward to it.

              I'll probably be speaking too soon, but I've normally spotted sawfly by now but nothing yet this year.
              Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
              By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
              While better men than we go out and start their working lives
              At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Snadger View Post
                Gooseberiries layer very easily. I just put a brick on a branch to hold it in contact with the ground and it will root.
                I have a couple that I have treat as half standards which makes them very easy to pick.
                I've got one trained as a half-standard, too. Well, I say "trained". It was one of the aforementioned self-layered plants, and it just sort of ended up like that. It's certainly appreciated, though.

                Originally posted by mrbadexample View Post
                I never see them in the UK either (not that I look very hard).
                I always see them in Tesco every year for a few weeks in June. They're cooking gooseberries, mind, not desert ones.
                They were everywhere when I was in Poland last year. Evidently, the Polish love gooseberries. Blackcurrants, too. If anything, they love blackcurrants even more than we do.

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                • #9
                  I just let the weight of the fruit pull the branches down to the soil. They just spread like strawberries.
                  Near Worksop on heavy clay soil

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