My Edible Fruit Trees: Gooseberry Trees NSW

Cape Gooseberry

Gooseberry - Captivator (Cutting) ^7/10

Comments: - Took a long time to fruit. Reasonably good taste. However, hot weather can make the fruit drop before it develops full sweetness.

Planted: 2012

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 30% in

Pollination: No

Cape Gooseberry ^7/10

Comments: - Easy grow and quick to get fruit. Old fashioned fruit; my grandma had them growing next to her outdoor toilet 50 years ago! I grew mine from seed I bought online. Some of the plants produced poor tasting fruits and others had good tasting fruits, so I just left one or two good ones. Self-seeds a lot. Tasty to add a few into a fruit salad. Usually the ones that have fallen off and laid on the ground for a few days are the tastiest.  But all cape gooseberry plants I've sampled have a rather acid taste, so I don't think you can eat a cup full without getting a belly ache. I've grown it in Perth and Sydney. I find the plant to be short-lived, at least in Sydney's clay and humid weather, where it grows a lot of foliage but fruit seldom seem to get adequately ripe. Mine did better in Perth's hot, arid summers and sandy soil where there was less foliage but better fruit - ie a bit of watering and mainly neglect seemed to work well. In Sydney after a year or two it looks sick so I pull it out. Always more self seeds coming up though, so just let a new one grow. Never had one damaged by Med fly or Qld fruitfly.

Fruiting Months January, July, August, September, October, November, December

Planted: 2012

Height 0.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from Seed

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

None. Pests don't seem to bother it.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Gooseberry - Thorny (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: - This variety seems not to be available from nurseries, but the fruit is very tasty. Some say it's better than the Captivator variety, so will be keen to compare. Growing from a cutting obtained from a friend. Fruit very sweet when ripe (turns to red colour).

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2014

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 6 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^9/10

Comments: - Growing mainly from self seeding now . Yummy little berry in a cute little cape .everyone loves them and fairly easy to grow , grows from cutting or seed . Prone to same things as most solanaise . 

Planted: 2010

Growing: In the Ground

Pollination: Hand Pollination

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry

Comments: -

Pretty small shrub. Almost finished flowering Jan 2017 for first time. Pretty when flowering. Hopefully will soon have fruit!

Yep -  fruited in June, a few over-wintered. Fruit a bit small and taste ho-hum.

Fruiting Months April, May, September

Planted: 2013

Height 0.4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: NPK

Pest Control:

None

Hill Gooseberry (Seedling) ^7/10

Comments: -

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 - red

Cape Gooseberry

Comments: -

Love the fruit and share it with the free loading feather/furry residents.  This plant is self seeded and growing in semi shade independantly in the garden. 

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Gooseberry - Captivator

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Organic Status:Organic

Cape Gooseberry (Cutting) ^6/10

Comments: -

I have enjoyed watching this shrub grow as this just popped up out of nowhere around November last year [2015], which has turned 3 little plants into one large and very sturdy shrub.

I'm always investigating the little lanterns and pounce the minute I see the yellow/brown coloured lanterns. 

Their flavour is quite unique and I describe it like a cross between a cherry tomato and a berry.. 

My only downfall would be that I can see plenty of green lanterns but only a few ripen at a time, compared to the amount of lanterns on the shrub,  as well as, ants or a caterpillar has beaten me to it.. 

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, December

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^3/10

Comments: -

24/5/13 those big brownish ladybugs ate the plant the berrys looked so cool.

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

Question:

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry (Seedling) ^7/10

Comments: -

Working out where to put it

Height 0.3 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Cape Gooseberry

Comments: -

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

Comments

Cucumber beetle?

or potato beetle perhaps?

I got rid of the larvae with a good sprinkle of corn flower over a couple of days and the bugs I did find I flicked them into a bucket of water- I felt awful but they were decimating my plant.

Gooseberry - Captivator (Cutting)

Comments: -

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

Comments: -

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

Gooseberry - English

Comments: -

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.

Comments

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

Comments: -

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

Comments: -

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.

Gooseberry

Comments: -

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Cape Gooseberry ^4/10

Comments: -

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

Comments: -

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