Moving a gooseberry bush

[lumpyjumper]

Thanks Snadger, didn't get out there this weekend, trying to fight off the first of the winter colds!!! S'pose should be grateful it's taken until January for me to catch my first cold of the season.

I shall move it this month and prune it next month, then wait and see.....

Thanks again
LumpyJ

[Liz and Steve]

HI Lumpyjumper,

I don't think you'll have any problems moving your bush - we inherited a bed of mature gooseberries in a previous house (we think it was a cuttings bed that was never transplanted) and we moved all 9 of them from our heavy loam garden to our sandy allotment with no losses. We just took a good root ball for each one - I guess about a large bucket's worth, I remember we had to put each bush in a separate fertiliser sack to transport them.

Best of luck with it.

Steve

[bramble]

Hi Snadgar, do you mean strip all the side shoots off and let the main shoot just grow on up. Would you get as much fruit from the bush if you did turn it into a cordon?