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Last year I was impressed by a fellow allotmenteers cape gooseberry, grown in a plastic dustbin, about 8 foot tall and laden with fruit!
After trying sowing some shop bought seed (with no success!), he kindly gave me three well rooted cuttings from his parent plant!
They are growing well
and I intend growing one in a very large pot in the greenhouse, one in a pot outdoors, and I'm not sure what I'm doing with the other one yet!
They seem to grow similar to a tomato with sideshoots forming at the leaf axils. Is it worth trying to grow one of the plants similarily to a tomato, ie nipping out the side shoots and growing as a single stem, or do I just leave them to there own devices and stake accordingly?
After trying sowing some shop bought seed (with no success!), he kindly gave me three well rooted cuttings from his parent plant!
They are growing well
and I intend growing one in a very large pot in the greenhouse, one in a pot outdoors, and I'm not sure what I'm doing with the other one yet! They seem to grow similar to a tomato with sideshoots forming at the leaf axils. Is it worth trying to grow one of the plants similarily to a tomato, ie nipping out the side shoots and growing as a single stem, or do I just leave them to there own devices and stake accordingly?
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