I found some of last Summer’s allotment gooseberries in the freezer, so they had to be converted into a crumble! Husb says it’s a work of art.
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Your husband is absolutely correct! Alas our gooseberries, which have failed yet again to fruit (5+ years), will shortly be vacating their garden space for something more amenable to being productive.
They’re very temperamental! The pruning has to be spot on and they like a handful of potash as soon as the flowers appear, but not a moment before otherwise they use it to grow loads of leaves and branches but no fruit!!!! Even so, they have years where we get loads and other years barely enough for a couple of crumbles.
Ah, I had see that the pruning was tricky. Alas it probably won’t save ours. If we had even had some fruit there might have been a reprieve.
That’s a shame. Had you considered trying jostaberries? They’re a cross between blackcurrant and gooseberry and are far more vigorous and have a much higher yield than gooseberries. I get aroung 2.5 kilos of fruit every year from each jostaberry plant. Delicious cooked and particularly good in jam and cordials.
Luckily we can pick plenty of wild blackberries, like the 6 kilos worth we picked a few weeks ago. So at present they will just be replaced by other vegetables.
oooh blackberries are lovely, one of my favourites