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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: pansy potter on October 16, 2011, 08:02:23

Title: Gooseberries
Post by: pansy potter on October 16, 2011, 08:02:23
I will be planting some new gooseberries in November and I want to grow them as cordon plants so that I won't have to be furking around underneath the bushes getting scratched to bits
Has anyone got any easy instructions on how to train and prune these.
Title: Re: Gooseberries
Post by: pumkinlover on October 16, 2011, 08:12:04
I'm afraid I bought my standards ready trained :-[
but I would guess you would buy a young plant with a long leader and then prune off the side shoots to encourage that to elongate
Title: Re: Gooseberries
Post by: pansy potter on October 16, 2011, 13:59:40
I don't know what shape the plants will be when I get them .All I do know is that they will be good plants (I have dealt with the company before)