Gooseberries have been cultivated in England as far back as the 13th century but were not widely grown until the early 1500s. They come in a range of colours including red, white, green and yellow.

Gooseberry Pixwell (Ribes hirtellum "Pixwell") is a tasty addition to a small home garden. Pixwell is a North American variety of gooseberry that originated in 1932 in North Dakota. At that time, ...

Question: I have a few gooseberry and currant plants in my garden. I was just told they were illegal. Is this true? Answer: To protect our native white pines from the spread of white pine blister rust ...

Figs, grapes, hazels, and gooseberries are among the easiest fruit plants to propagate using cuttings, layering, or just by digging up suckers. If you love fruit like I do, you’ll soon realize that ...

The Missouri gooseberry is considered threatened in Ohio with post-1980 records showing it as only having been found in Brown, Butler, Clermont, and Hamilton counties, according to ODNR. A patch of ...

I once had a fat and happy gooseberry in my garden. As I recall, this shrub was about as low maintenance as it gets. It survived 30 below zero several years in a row without a bit of damage and was ...

The gooseberry sawfly is an ugly sight. What, however, is the organic solution? I wrote recently in Thorny Problems about this persistent pest, the larvae of which can strip the leaves of gooseberry ...

‘Pruning when the gooseberry bush is dormant ensures growth with new fruits isn’t trimmed away,’ explains Morris Hankinson, managing director at Hopes Grove Nurseries. Pruning gooseberries is an ...

A CHAMPION gooseberry grower claims his prized bushes were poisoned and killed by a rival. Terry Price, 76, said his bushes began looking sickly three months ago and that within days they had all died ...

Scientists have for the first time found evidence of China beetles infesting gooseberry or amla plants in Arunachal Pradesh and few other northeastern states. The scientists also anticipated that ...