My Edible Fruit Trees: Gooseberry Trees WA

English Gooseberry

Comments: - Removed. Grew fine but there was nowhere near enough chill to ever get flowers. Probably very few, if any, places in WA that might get fruit from these.Not sure why the nurseries keep selling them here. 

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - This is a superior seed from Thailand. The fruits are much bigger than our usual backyard varieties. Love this fruit because it tastes great and also comes in it's own fruit fly proof case. It fruits over winter also - providing variety when there is not much else. 
Reasonably regular feeding and watering gives better tasting fruit. I plant in semi-shade in summer and full sun in winter. 

Planted: 2017

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Mostly slow release organic chook manure pellets, sometimes a regular fruit tree fert with higher N and K. Little and often

Comments

Could you describe the taste of the larger variety you are growing? Would you be willing to sell me some saved seeds to try growing in Adelaide please?

Gooseberry-Cape

Comments: -

Self-seeds all over the place

Really amazing how nature gives them a insect protective covering-interesting to watch it dry out & become net-like with the yellow berry inside

Chooks love them

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Cape Gooseberry

Comments: -

Physalis pruinosa cv. Little Lantern

F: ON

Cape Gooseberry

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^10/10

Fruiting Months March

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling)

Fruiting Months January, February, December

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^8/10

Comments: -

I find this plant likes it's manure and good watering. Too much water may make the fruit less tasty though.

Incredible root system that spreads wide and far!  Red spider mites love them - so hose under the leaves with a good jet of water - and grow in different spots around the garden each time....

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

Doin it old school !

Cape Gooseberry ^10/10

Comments: -  Cape Gooseberries are so easy to grow. You just bury one of the fruits (you can probably grow them from cuttings too but I've never bothered) and water occasionally.  The require no maintenance at all, although you may need to cut the plants back because they grow so vigorously and you will get new plants self seeding from fallen fruit every year. The fruit are very attractive and fun to pick as the fruit grow individually inside paper lantern-like cases. When fresh the fruit resemble a cherry tomato and are very juicy with a sharp/sweet flavour, reminiscent of apricots. The fruit can also be left to dry on the bush (although many will fall when ripened before drying out). When dry the fruits a wrinkled and somewhat leathery with a much sweeter flavour. Kids love to pick and eat these.    

Planted: 2010

Height 0.7 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 6 Months From Seed

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:  

Question:  I've been told that it can be harmful to eat unripe Cape Goosberry fruits. Do you know if this is true? 

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^9/10

Comments: -

Very rootbound when I first planted it.  Hopefully will survive. It lives!!!  Starting to get much new growth. 

This bush is goung berzerk.  Must love the location

Height 20 Centimetres

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Cape Gooseberry

Cape Gooseberry (Cutting) ^6/10

Comments: -

In danger of taking over my vegi patch

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

Planted: 2007

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months after I planted Cutting

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pest Control:

None

Organic Status:Organic

gooseberry

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Planted in 2008- no fruit yet

Cape Gooseberry

Cape Gooseberry (Seedling) ^3/10

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No