We have had a really good crop of gooseberries this season. The green, cooking berries 'Invicta' were picked in late-June and used to make gooseberry fools and other puddings. The small and smooth 'Hinomaki Red' and the larger, hairier variety 'Pax' (both shown below) are being eaten as a dessert fruit.
The nets have now been taken off of the soft fruit to allow the birds to get at any bugs that may have been lurking in the leaf litter.
We are going to remove two of the 'Invicta' gooseberry bushes and an old redcurrant bush in the Autumn and replace them with a yellow gooseberry 'Hinomaki Yellow', a later fruiting redcurrant 'Redstart' and another blueberry 'Gold Traube'.
We are going to remove two of the 'Invicta' gooseberry bushes and an old redcurrant bush in the Autumn and replace them with a yellow gooseberry 'Hinomaki Yellow', a later fruiting redcurrant 'Redstart' and another blueberry 'Gold Traube'.
Edit 12/10/10 : The blueberry 'Gold Traube' should actually be 'Ozarkblue'.
The planting plan will look like this :
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