My Edibles: Gooseberry Trees NSW

Cape Gooseberry

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Annuals. Seeds save well for following year. I mix them through the herb bed and also have them in pots.

I have 2 different sorts of these - a yellow and a green variety. I am told that both should go yellow when it ripens but I kept fruit from last season and they stayed green until I broke it open to plant the seeds this year so I don't know what sort that is!

I really like adding the fruit to salad. They have a lovely tomatoey flavour and I like the seedy texture. They also dry well in a dessicator and retain a strong flavour.

Summer 2011: John gave me a gift of some mamoth cape gooseberry seeds. I have planted them but nothing is up yet. Not surprised though, the weather has been so cold and wet that nothing much is coming up - not even my flowers!

Planted: 2009

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 4

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

Last year they got orange and black striped bugs that completely decimated them within a day. I was lucky to get enough fruit to save the seeds. This year there has been no sign of them

Gooseberry - Captivator (Cutting)

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Spring 2011: snapped it up when I saw it in the nursery. I love berries so couldn't resist. I beleive that this variety doesn't need frostto bear good fruit... we will just have to wait and see!

This variety (ribes uva-crispa) is thornless which also attracted me-between the various raspberries I usually come away from gardening with holes in something - either myself or my clothes!

Summer 2011: It has taken a while to settle in to the garden. I think more due to the wet and cold than anything else. It is starting to get some new growth now that the weather is warming up. Have notices those nasty leaf curling caterpillars in the new growth. GRRR!

Planted: 2011

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

The leaf curling caterpillars get into the new growth.

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^10/10

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Tasty little fruit & very easy to grow

Planted: 2011

Height 0.5 metres

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol, dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

none

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^3/10

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planted seeds only one plant left after the chooks got to the garden

Height 5 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

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Gooseberry - English

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Growing well. Looking forward to fruit.

Planted: 2010

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Gooseberry - Roaring Lion

Cape Gooseberry

Comments: - Grows wild, mostly in cleared areas. A better weed than most, soft wooded, no thorns, edible fruit. I have to harvest them as soon as the crop starts before fruit fly get into them.

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Cape Gooseberry (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - My favourite childhood memory involves sitting in front of my great grandmother's cape gooseberry, eating the delicious yellow fruits. I wanted to grow one of these to recapture the taste of my youth!

Fruiting Months July and August

Planted: 2010

Height 0.3 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 30% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: None!

Organic Status:Organic

Cape Gooseberry ^5/10

Comments: - Struggled with powdery mildew/mould, but treated with pruning and training to separate the crossed branches, and moving to spot with better air movement, plus treatment with copper fungicide. Seems to be recovering well.

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry ^6/10

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I have two of these, neither of which has fruited yet. Both have been in the ground for a few years, but both are challenged by the soil they are planted in, and one by grass competition. One has survived despite remarkably wet feet, as it was planted very close to a dam edge. I think that one needs to come out and be transplanted closer to the other one.

Planted: 2007

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

nil

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Cape Gooseberry ^5/10

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Bought a plant years ago and planted it out. Have seedlings coming up now... not sure if from mine or elsewhere. When I find them fruiting, I check what's inside the husk and eat them, to prevent weedy spread, and also because they are quite nice! (Sometimes I find what I guess may be Tomatillos, a Cape Gooseberry relative, also coming up uninvited. They seem to prefer moist places, because I find the self-seeded ones most often in semi-shade, moist spots.

Planted: 2006

Growing: In the Ground

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

Husk seems to prevent pest problems. The plant is more likely to become a pest, even if tasty.

Hill Gooseberry (Seedling) ^7/10

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Rhodomyrtus tomentosa.  Ceylon Hill Cherry, Downy Myrtle or Rose Myrtle.  3m high

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Gooseberry

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Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Cape Gooseberry ^4/10

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Grows easily, fruit makes a good jam but too tangy to eat fresh.  Will self seed.

Pollination: No

Cape Gooseberry

Star Gooseberry

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^9/10

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Planted by a friend in the ornamental garden. Tough as nails and able to get a smattering of fruit this year.

Fruiting Months September and October

Height 2 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Fruit Harvest: 0.25 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Cow manure

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control:

None

Organic Status:Organic

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^10/10

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Good cropper this one. Sharp tase. Nice to have. Always self seeding.

Fruiting Months January, February, September, October, November, December

Planted: 2002

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 10

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: citrus

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Yearly

Organic Status:Partially Organic

gooseberry (Cutting)

Planted: 2009

Height 0.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry (Seedling) ^4/10

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Growing but not well - will try to improve soil this year

Planted: 2006

Height 0.5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

none

Organic Status:Organic

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry

Cape Gooseberry

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^7/10

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Summer 07/08 some very hot high 40's temperatures.  It did fruit and was delicious.

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry - Cutting Grown (Cutting) ^6/10

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Need to fertilize.  It's been a while since it last produced fruit.

Planted: 1997

Height 0.7 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

so far no pests

Organic Status:Organic

Cape Gooseberry

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Potato beetles decimate these so I get very few fruit but each year another plant appears somewhere in the garden.

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry - Cutting Grown

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This small plant had been growing well for a bit less than a year when it was trampled and snapped. I rejoined it and secured with masking tape and now it has fully recovered and should bear this year.

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Heya Dekka, I'm from Newcastle too and was wondering if you got this plant locally? Thanks, Kath