Calling all goosberries

[little boomey]

Happy easter fellow gardeners, isn't it a great time of the year to be out there?

My problem is a gooseberry bush I was given which was a proflific fruiter with its previous owner, but not one solitary fruit has it produced for me. This is its third, and I have threatened final, year in quite a sunny spot along side some very happy late raspberries and a blackcurrent bush. On inspection today not one flower head to be seen - any ideas, I thought goosgogs grew and prospered in the most dire conditions?

[gojiberry]

Could be to much TLC and not inclined to reproduction. What is the bush like in the way of growth. Could try a severe prune to get it going.

Ian

[purplekat]

Yep, I'd think you're feeding it too much so it's growing bigger instead of making fruit. Have you been feeding it and if so, what with?

[little boomey]

Well, ive never actually fed the gooseberry thinking that it didn,nt need it - though do feed the other fruits with an organic general feed. I have never pruned it either, basically just ignored it!

[wellie]

The only other possibility, could be birds pecking off the blossom fruits/fruit blossoms.

EDIT NOTE: I have noticed that the Pax (almost thornless variety) Goosegog that I dug up earlier this year and put in a large tub, has noticeably less fruits today than last week when I watered it, and it isn't that they've just 'dropped off'(!)
Sufficiently worried about that, whilst I watered my other fruit bushes and new trees this evening, I took particular notice, and am tomorrow onwards going to be putting protective netting into use.