Gooseberry and all of the bush fruits are so easy to propogate. Just cut off well ripened wood about 8" long, strip off the lower half's leaves and either plunge into a suitable spot in the garden to grow on or do as I do which is to put a few around the edges of a big pot filled with either good soil or a soil based compost and wait for them to shoot next year. When they are growing well tip out the pot and either pot on or again plant into a nursery bedfor a second year. By the autumn of the second year they will be ready to permanently plant out.
I take a fair few cuttings of currants, blueberries and goosebery bushes most autumns and as they are so eager to grow the success rate is very nearly 100%. |