Just yesterday i noticed a couple wild hazel growing under the canopy of a small patch of woods close by my home..then i spotted gooseberry and not just one quite a few dozen wild healthy growing gooseberrys weaving in and out underneath the canopy of the trees. There is such a abundance of berrys that have tip layered on there own that i was curious if i could take one home.. for my own yard so i can harvest them in my yard..my only concern was shocking these lovely berries as they have already leafed out any tips on getting one homewould be appreciated.
Gooseberry is very hardy. I would cut off some stems, wrap them in a wet cloth to bring them home. Strip off most their leaves, dip them in rooting hormone, plant them and keep them watered for the summer. I'm betting by next year they'll be doing just fine. Just make sure they're the gooseberries you want! We mostly have Sierra Gooseberry here, which is not the friendliest plant to harvest.
Ive already got a poorman and a yellow hinnonmaki ...i just want more haha more!! ...lol i like native plants and my plan is to use it for propagating more of them. I just love gooseberry pie and wild ones are great for that. ...thank you
I have transplanted wild gooseberry into my food forest. The way I did it was I split a wild plant in half leaving half there and taking the other half. I have gave them zero attention and the are growing good. The original leaves got what I think is sunburnt from going from almost full shade to almost full sun but it recovered quickly even in a drought year.
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.
I've been experimenting with different blackberries, trying and mostly failing to grow raspberries ( I'm right between where tropical ones and regular ones will grow ) and bought a lot of plants from a lot of different berry growers.
One nursery stands out as being way higher quality, so high none of the others I ever got even came close.
I spent a lot of money on sub standard berry nursery stock before I found Nourse.
Some of the other suppliers plants are still struggling along, the rest long dead.
Blackberries love it here naturally so if I get stock that struggles I know there's a problem with quality.
Nourse has all the new thornless primocane and floricane (summer bearing and everbearing, Summer-bearing: fruiting in mid-summer. Everbearing: fruiting in late-summer into fall.) fruiting blackberries like prime ark freedom.
Those new ones are all patented plants and I know many object to that.
They also have the older good quality non-patented thornless ones like Chester.
They have an excellent berry growing "how to" on their website:
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