I have a number of volunteers in the ribes family but I'm not sure what kind they are since I also have black currants, one gooseberry I bought with the name "invicta" that had lots of thorns. This one is a lot healthier and has no thorns, so I'm not sure what it is but it looks like the huge English gooseberries, so I don't know. Oh, and red currants that
should be taken care of better than I can right now: they look terrible...
They keep layering all on their own, but I wish I knew what they are. I'm planning to transplant some in a temporary bed until I see the first fruit so I can choose what I like. Some must have come from birds dropping the seeds, so they could be the worst ribes ever, but oh, well, I'll just try. I can always invite the
chickens to partake, right? They are very easy to layer as this is the way they tend to behave in the wild: Just bend down a branch after you harvest this year's berries on the old
wood. The tip of it is the new wood and looks greener with no fruit. Dig a little hollow where you will put the junction of the old and the new wood, burry the junction [place a paver on it so you don't accidentally mow it!] and next spring, you can cut that branch at the junction and plant the new plant.
I will multiply the Invicta gooseberries in a bed filled with mulch where I'm also growing wine cap
mushrooms.