New growth on gooseberry

debs64 · May 2019

Hi all, got a large gooseberry bush on the allotment and I see the berries are all on the older wood. Bush has lots of new green growth, should I leave it to fruit next year or cut back to allow plant to concentrate on growing those berries? It was there when we got the plot so do t know variety sorry. Hope someone can help.

Dovefromabove · May 2019

In late June/early July I shorten the new growth to five leaves ... then in the winter I do the more structural pruning as in here http://rhs.org.uk/Advice/profile?pid=332
😊

debs64 · May 2019

Thanks dove, there are lots of fairly long new shoots do you mean five sets of leaves or 5 actual leaves on each shoot?

Dovefromabove · May 2019

I snip above the fifth leaf ... ish. Its sometimes four sometimes six depending on a few things including whether I’m wearing my glasses.

debs64 · May 2019

Thanks dove, really hope my goosegogs don’t get stolen this year!

Dovefromabove · May 2019

Blackbirds? Pop along to a charity shop
and get some big old net curtains and drape them over down to the ground. The little darlings like to hop under the bushes and get the fruit but they don’t push under the curtains. Allotments used to be draped with net curtains when I was a child. 😂

debs64 · May 2019

Dove I wouldn’t mind blackbirds. We all lost produce from the allotment particularly gooseberries and runner beans from human thieves, we think it’s sorted now fingers crossed

Dovefromabove · May 2019

😡. I hope they got very very scratched indeed 😤

New growth on gooseberry

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