My personal experience with pruning gooseberries comes from maintaining a selection of both red and green gooseberry plants in a walled kitchen garden I worked in. The plants were pruned annually ...

If you've got gooseberry bushes growing and have more than you know what to do with, there are two ways you can preserve these little summery treats whole: either hot packing, which involves boiling ...

Look out for gooseberry sawfly from late spring onwards. Check leaves regularly for caterpillar damage and control by hand. If this is proving hard, spray bushes regularly with an insecticide.

It's believed that we first became familiar with the stork through the tales of Hans Christian Andersen and by the 1930s it had replaced the 'gooseberry bush' as the most popular way of explaining to ...