Last weekend we spent a day at my parents’ place, or rather in their garden. They were about to leave for a week long vacation and had no intention of using the many berries in their garden. I thus took Husband and Son with me and picked clean almost every bush.
It’s has not been a very good spring or summer for certain types of berries. I had hoped to find at least a few litres of blueberries, but they were scarce, sour, and small. The currants, black and red, were also scarce this year, and we only found about half a litre of each (despite the 6 bushed of black currant!).
My mother helped relieve the gooseberry bush from its heavy burden
One bush that really surprised me was the gooseberry bush. Never before have I seen a gooseberry bush carry as many berries. Each wee branch was heavy from the big berries. They hung like clusters of grapes. Unfortunately though, I believe I am the only one in the house who likes the taste of gooseberry products, and after about ten litres of berries we decided to stop.
During a short visit at my grandparents’ we picked about half a litre of raspberries.
Recipes to follow 🙂
Anne blabbers 
I love gooseberries and that looks like a fantastic crop!
It was indeed! Freezer’s full now, so now we have to dig in the best we can until next year 😉
I have never tasted those!
Oooh, you’re missing out! You should be able to find them though, I would think…
Wow, I have never seen the gooseberry tree with so many fruit like this either! So cool!
I know! I hope we’re as lucky next year! I’ll be scouting for more recipes for next year’s crop!
Can’t wait for your recipes…and come to think of it ,I don’t think I have ever had gooseberries…but I will next time I come across them!
You should! They are delicious (but some tend to dislike them… sour on the outside, sweet on the inside..)
Gooseberries are one of my favourite, but they are pretty hard to get around here, unless you grow them, which we have not got around to doing, yet. That is an amazing crop.
in my experience the bushes will have quite a good crop already the first year (nothing like this of course, but still good crops). And they seem to survive anything and need very little tending. Maybe you should get one?
I think our soil might not be very suitable – the rest of the growing conditions are probably just right, and soil can be adjusted, so maybe we should give it a try.
Good luck with it 🙂