I worry about gooseberries

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Aibu

I'm heartened by this thread too :) I love the slightly surreal thing of being worried about gooseberries. Well done OP!

In sulking. Went to a PYO for goosberries and they were still rock hard. We'd given them an extra week already!

gooseberry candles! I'd love one!
also madmaryboddington love the fact that you have kept your ancestral rhubarb growing - how fabulous. Which is that rhubarb which is supposed to be the best - can't remember the name now. I had some once in a previous house but transplanted it to the wrong part of the garden and sadly it withered. Sad cos it was brilliant till then

I am worried about my gooseberries. Fucking bindweed is dragging the branches down and loads of unripe gooseberries are being pulled off by the fucker.

Cunting bindweed can shag off. Fucker.

I accidentally ruined some gooseberry jam in progress by getting distracted by MN and burning it...
If the pheasants don't get their first though I have a good crop coming this year.
My neighbour makes gooseberry ice cream, very tart.

It appears that gooseberries are actually doing perfectly well. The person who mentioned rhubarb is just (sorry) silly: it's one of the cool kids.

It's quince and medlar I'm really concerned about.

think we need to start a new thread for those then

Mmmnmmm i love gooseberries! Once I swapped a bushel load of lily-of-the-valley with my boss for a bucket of gooseberries. Mwahahaha the foooooooool he got by far the rawer deal! But I too worry that they are not freely available in shops and children will have no knowledge of them

"AIBU to be worried about quince and medlar?"

Nah, no one would open that thread, Monkee: most people won't have heard of them!

TotHappy where do you live - Middlemarch or in some other costume drama..... !

"AIBU to be worried about quince and medlar?"
Nah, no one would open that thread, Monkee: most people won't have heard of them!

I'd certainly never heard of medlar until my mother-in-law made some medlar jelly. We put it on stews to add a sweet guy and balance out the flavours.

We love, love our gooseberries, DC eat them off the bushes, as do DH and I .
Lovely things, gooseberries, intend to plant few more as it is.

Monkee you’re probably thinking of Champagne rhubarb. But personally I’m loyal to Victoria.

BMW6 - to deal with your cunting bindweed, snip the stems off lowish and poke canes into the ground next to them. Encourage the new growth to grow up the canes. When it is high enough, paint glyphosate (Roundup) into the leaves. You might have to repeat this.

I love gooseberries and redcurrants, but you hardly ever see them for sale these days.

I have a freezer full as I've been waiting for elderflower season, so that I can make elderflower and gooseberry, Ice cream , liqueor, jam and cakes

Very much loved in this house

I have a medlar in my garden. The fruit is not nice. 'Col de chien'
Tried making medlar jelly one, took literally weeks and was a bit meh.

I love that a PP has called them Goozgogs! My DH is from the posh end of Dorset and always finds it funny when I say what they are!

You beat me @IsaidMrDarcynotArsey
But I’ll say it again-
FOOL!

What is green and hairy and goes up and down ?
A gooseberry in a lift .

Can you even buy them by the punnet? Or by the lb?

Long and thin,
covered in skin,
Pink in parts,
Goes in tarts !

Rhubarb .

Gooseberries are a pain to pick with all those thorns. I wonder if that is why there are so few available in the shops.

Oooh elderflower season is here for me - just made some cordial and its literally the only drink that I can stomach to help with morning sickness.

Medlar jelly is lush - quince jelly is even nicer but you have to get a good crop of quinces going.

Rhubarb is the king of fruit (???) right now!

Look for a pick your own Bramble. They often do more than just strawberries. And wear a thick coat (I have a heavy leather jacket I keep just for this!).