Not sure if this will help. I purchased two gooseberry bushes last year a red and a yellow. I was quite concerned over getting fruit bushes off to a good start so purchased some coco mulch for gooseberries. This was shredded coconut fibre and a mix of pellets to mix in I put a big handfull in the hole and mixed quite a bit in the surrounding soil. I got a couple of handfulls of gooseberries last year and this year the bushes are heaving with flowers and baby berries.
I have used specialist coco mulch for all my fruit bushes gooseberries, currents tayberries and raspberries and all have fruited well first year and look like doing the same this year.
I just went with the old saying about spending a penny on the plant and a pound on the soil and it seems to of paid off.
Neither of my gooseberries have fruited this year. I don't know what happened to one of my plants but it looked like someone had literally sat in the middle of it from a great height, flattening it. Wind damage???? I hope that with a good cut back and compost it will be OK for next year.
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Lots of lovely foliage. Garden chimes sending out calming mantra. Fingers crossed.
Can't fail this year.
Not sure if this will help. I purchased two gooseberry bushes last year a red and a yellow. I was quite concerned over getting fruit bushes off to a good start so purchased some coco mulch for gooseberries. This was shredded coconut fibre and a mix of pellets to mix in I put a big handfull in the hole and mixed quite a bit in the surrounding soil. I got a couple of handfulls of gooseberries last year and this year the bushes are heaving with flowers and baby berries.
I have used specialist coco mulch for all my fruit bushes gooseberries, currents tayberries and raspberries and all have fruited well first year and look like doing the same this year.
I just went with the old saying about spending a penny on the plant and a pound on the soil and it seems to of paid off.
This is good advice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94sG6XWi3Sk
Neither of my gooseberries have fruited this year. I don't know what happened to one of my plants but it looked like someone had literally sat in the middle of it from a great height, flattening it. Wind damage???? I hope that with a good cut back and compost it will be OK for next year.
A very good video here on pruning gooseberry bushes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFAs8kHALz4
Hope it helps
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.