Hi Thistle
welcome to the forum
cant comment on the variety but if either are resistant to saw fly go that way .this is my first crop for three years because of the little blighters .they eat all the leaves and the goosers die on the plant before they ripen
if we hadent sorted by this year i was going the pesticide route
but fingers crossed
MOS xx
sit down with a cupa and the urge will subside
Hello Thistle,
Another welcome to you.
I was talking to a fruit farmer (at the farmers' market) recently after buying some of his gooseberries & he recommended buying "Pax" so that is what I shall order once I root out the non-fruiting variety I have at the moment....... .
"The beautiful is as useful as the useful...perhaps more so."
from Les Miserables
Hi everyone,
Thank you so much for the advice, I really appreciate it. Pax it's going to be. All I need now is to search for the best buy. Some are bare rooted and some potted. Some are more mature bushes than others and some are just very expensive ! I'd ideally like to buy a bush that will fruit next year, I can't wait to grow my own !!
Many thanks
Thistle
thistle said:
Hi everyone,
Thank you so much for the advice, I really appreciate it. Pax it's going to be. All I need now is to search for the best buy. Some are bare rooted and some potted. Some are more mature bushes than others and some are just very expensive ! I'd ideally like to buy a bush that will fruit next year, I can't wait to grow my own !!
Many thanks
Thistle
Try R V Roger Ltd . , might not be the cheapest but they're grown in N.Yorkshire so will be hardier than more southern grown ones .
Seed catalogues are responsible for more unfulfilled fantasies than the web and playboy combined . (after Michael Perry)
Hi Danast
That's good to know and very positive. I'm very excited about red gooseberries....lol. I'd never come across them till reading through all the seed brochures I've ordered and thought WOW I must have one of those. I'm very new to allotment gardening and have been bitten by the bug. I wish I'd done it years ago
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