others great for cooking Gooseberries are an often overlooked yet delicious fruit, rarely sold in supermarkets, so well worth growing. Once established, plants usually crop abundantly every summer for ...

Gooseberries are often thought to be easy to grow but they really need care to produce plants that will bear a good crop of easily pickable berries each year. They are not a popular as they used to be ...

You can grow gooseberry bushes from bare-root plants or from established bushes. ‘For best value for money, buy bare rooted plants from a nursery in late winter or early spring,’ suggests Ed Bollom.

Look out for gooseberry sawfly from late spring onwards. Check leaves regularly for caterpillar damage and control by hand. If this is proving hard, spray bushes regularly with an insecticide.

Gooseberries are hugely productive soft fruit bushes that benefit from annual pruning to ensure they provide the biggest harvest possible. By selectively pruning older wood, and encouraging the ...