Healthy Fruit Gooseberry
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This will
make the bush susceptible to mildew. The fruit should best be picked off when
large to reach maximum sweetness. Supermarkets tend to have theirs picked early
and before they are ripe and sweet to give a long shelf life. Heavily laden
branches should be cut off complete with berries, this really benefits future
crops as it lets the light reach the new growth. Cultivar 'Invicta' now is a
popular green gooseberry which has some mildew resistance. Of the many hundred
sorts enumerated in recent horticultural works, few perhaps equal in flavour
some of the older denizens of the fruit-garden, such as the Old Rough Red and
Hairy Amber.
The climate of the British Isles seems peculiarly adapted to bring
the gooseberry to perfection, and it may be grown successfully even in the most
northern parts of Scotland; indeed, the flavour of the fruit is said to improve
with increasing latitude. In Norway even, the bush flourishes in gardens on the
west coast nearly up to the Arctic Circle, and it is found wild as far north as
63°. The dry summers of the French and German plains are less suited to it,
though it is grown in some hilly districts with tolerable success.
The
gooseberry in the south of England will grow well in cool situations and may
sometimes be seen in gardens near London flourishing under the partial shade of
apple trees, but in the north it needs full exposure to the sun to bring the
fruit to perfection. It will succeed in almost any soil but prefers a rich loam
or black alluvium, and, though naturally a plant of rather dry places, will do
well in moist land, if drained.
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