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berries to harvest. They are so darned prickly that I'm convinced it wasn't brambles surrounding the castle where Sleeping Beauty slept, but gooseberry bushes.But after the successes of my currants last summer I have relented, and three gooseberry bushes

in growing bagsHarvest early potatoes, carrots and salad cropsPrune the sideshoots of gooseberry bushes back to just five leavesCut out congested raspberry canes at soil level, or those popping up in pathsFeed all crops with a liquid fertiliserSow seeds

. Gooseberry fool in June, summer pudding in July, made from freshly picked blackcurrants and raspberries, pears in September dripping honeysweet on your fingers - you get my drift. Nothing is more delicious than ripe fruit at the right time and place. I

summer berries at the RHS Wisley Berry Weekend.Wisley is home to a national collection of gooseberries. It has around 170 varieties, although thankfully you'll only be asked to try around 20 of them."I didn't even like them when I came to this country

dad puddle in leeks on the veg plot. I loved it, and am still enchanted by the smell of bonfires on summer evenings and swollen, ripe gooseberries, just as I was when I was roughly the same height as the plants.I also had a strong affinity