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Move recently planted gooseberry?

ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
in Fruit & veg
I'm an idiot - I planted a gooseberry bush a month ago and now I want to move it. I bought it on impulse and stuck it in where there was a gap, forgetting that I have a new bed that I want to grow soft fruit in. Would it be fatal to move it now? 

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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I can only speak from a single experience, but I dug up an old gooseberry from my parents' old garden last year (wrong time of year too, by necessity) and planted it. To my surprise, it took immediately and started to make new leaves... at which point, only a few weeks later, I realised I had made a mistake and had to move it. I didn't hold out much hope and it didn't look particularly happy but it came back and this year it's looking good and healthy. I have heard you should 'treat 'em mean', though I think I was a bit extreme. 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
    That gives me hope LG, I think I'll take the plunge!

  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Good luck! I should have said that there was already fruit starting to form when I first dug it up (told you it was the wrong time), which I removed. So I didn't have any fruit last year. But given that I didn't expeft it to survive at all, that was not a problem.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    You should be fine.. it won't have made any real new root growth in the past four weeks.
    Utah, USA.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Many years ago we moved some established gooseberries in my mothers garden. They survived and did very well until a few too many "accidents" with the lawnmower. (my mothers husband does NOT have green fingers)
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