Once you get a taste for juicy, sweet gooseberries from your own garden, you'll want to grow even more of these berry bushes. Even a single vital bush provides plenty of material for propagation. Here's how to proceed.
How to propagate gooseberries?
Propagate gooseberries easily using cuttings or planting. Cuttings use annual shoots that are planted in lean substrate and kept slightly moist. With sinkers, shoots are fixed to the ground until roots emerge.
Propagation from cuttings is so easy
As part of the annual pruning, you automatically have a number of shoots in your hand with the makings of cuttings. A perfect specimen is 25-30 centimeters long, one year old and completely he althy. A cutting is cut off 3-5 millimeters below a bud with a sharp, disinfected knife. The steps continue:
- Fill cultivation pots with lean substrate, such as peat sand or standard soil
- Defoliate cuttings in the lower area
- halve the leaves of the upper half
- plant so deep that 3-4 eyes are above the ground
- pour and place in the partially shaded window seat
While you keep the substrate constantly slightly moist, rooting will progress quickly. By next fall, each cutting will have developed into a strong young plant ready to be planted in the bed
Easy propagation with planters
Over the course of the summer there is an opportunity to breed a gooseberry bush with sinkers. Annual shoots from the outer part of the tree are eligible. A suitable branch is pulled to the ground. Where it touches the ground, create a small furrow to bury the sinker here. How to proceed:
- defoliate the branch where it touches the earth
- score the bark very lightly with a razor
- bury the shoot so that the tip sticks out of the ground
- The sinker is fixed with stones or tent pegs
- tie the shoot tip vertically to a small wooden stick
While the mother plant continues to supply the sinker with nutrients, a new root system develops from the wound tissue until next spring. If you feel significant resistance when pulled, the young plant is cut off from the mother plant and dug up. Now simply plant it in the new location and care for it like an adult gooseberry.
Tips & Tricks
An ingenious gooseberry breed is conquering balconies and terraces. The columnar gooseberry thrives excellently in large containers. Thanks to a height of 180 centimeters, you can easily harvest the sugary fruits while standing. There are many delicious varieties of the slim gooseberry to discover.
