Topic: gooseberry bush

[Allotment18]

I ordered a gooseberry bush yesterday, any tips on planting??

[manicscousers]

we planted 2 before the frost, plenty of compost in the hole, buried a little deeper than it was before and will be giving them a bit of blood, fish and bone next month  :)

[Allotment18]

Thanks,  cant wait to give it a try

[sunloving]

A lot of my fruit last year split in the drought then deluge so my tip would be to put plenty of compost/manure organic matter in the soil so that they are quite buffered from extreems of water availibility.

So yummy straight from the bush , ive got pax which are better than grapes! what variety did you get?
x sunloving

[Tonythegardener]

I have just planted Xania red gooseberry.  A heavy cropper.  I dug a hole and put some well rotted compost in together with inoculated charcoal and mychorrhizal fungi.   

[Allotment18]

 ive ordered an Invicta - hoping I can do ok with it going to plant a  couple of rhubarb crowns as well (March i think I need to plant them out?)

[goodlife]

You can put your rhubarb crowns in now..that's if your soil is not frozen..the earlier they can start their growth the better ;)

[Tee Gee]

I ordered a gooseberry bush yesterday, any tips on planting??

This link might help;

http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Gooseberry/Gooseberry.htm