Looks as if it is going to be a bumper year for me this year.

Have dusted off my chutney recipe, (love it in a sambo with white stilton cheese and rocket) but has anyone got any other suggestions?

Gooseberry Fool!! Mmmmmmmm....! Love it! There's a surprise...

Made gooseberry jam last year - still got some is dead nice

The wind had blown loads of the baby fruits off. Do you think it will recover or have any effect on the saw fly ?

Won't affect the saw fly but the goosegogs left should be alright - lots of fruit drop - not sure if goosgogs is one of them mind

ooohh bugger - should I have baby fruit already - Lottie help??? is only ickle still - growing some impressive looking thorns, but def no sign of any berries yet?? looks quite fluffy really, bit like a lion cub, you know it is going to end up all mean and evil as you can see the potential in its talons.......



OMG, I need to get out more.......

Mine didn't produce the first season, hun, so just look after it, and next year you should have loads...

My goosegogs are swelling beautifully, and yes loads have dropped off, but there are still bucket loads on the bush, does it every year...

OK... anything for you Johnnie!!

You shouldn't play sooo hard to get, Gem...

In the gardening mag this month there's a recipe for gooseberry ice cream. I have a new guzgog and it's got fruit on it already so I think I might try my hand at ice cream making. You can put elderflowers in it too and my plot hedge is dripping with those

will you post the recipe Wards?

last year I made chutney at the very end of June, just when I got my plot

I'VE HAD MY PLOT FOR A YEAR

WHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO

I've had mine 3 years this sept (if you include the fact we moved last year) and that's well scarey. Got very little planted and it looks like a jungle/tip depending on whether you view the cardboarded bit or not.

My goosegogs are almost ready by the end of the month they should be pickable ... have put recipe up for chutney which is simply gotgeous with white stilton and rocket mmmm

ewwwwwww not keen on stilton in recipes. Just a little on biscuits with decent red wine for me.

Goosegogs doing well though particularly as I transplanted them last winter. Lots running down the stems so my 'hard' pruning hasn't hurt!

Moonbells I do not have a sweet tooth. As the recipe stands it is not at all sharp.

The darker the sugar the sweeter the taste I find Chutney comes out cholcolate brown!

I use white vinegar and pale soft brown, chutney is pale green, if the dark stuff was used a more molasses flavour would be the result I suppose?

Kitchen Garden mag June ish

I've posted the recipe on here. Go see

Muscat syrup sounds the biz

ta muchly for posting the recipe wardy, hi ho, tis off to pick guzgogs I go

I've not managed to find a sweet guzgog yet

0urs disaqppeared

birdks? n0. needkedk t0 m0ve brances

Oh dear Tara, sounds like yer needle's stuck. Like wotsisname? Oh that comic? Er um Norman Collier

Still on floor laffing!!!

Mine are still ripening, Watson...

Mine are. I only have the one guzgog at the mo but it came ready with fruit on it. Sour as hell though. Yuk I want just 10 oz of ripe uns for that ice cream recipe. Looks like I'll have to go scrump em She who dares eh