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Ed Mashburn – what ever happened to Ed? – who was
for a time, if I recall correctly, the NAFEX Ribes consultant, and proprietor
of Northumberland Berryworks as well as head of The International Ribes
Association, recommended Pixwell and Glenndale as two gooseberry varieties that
would handle my hot zone 6 climate – and even full sun here.
Granted, neither variety got rave reviews for fruit quality, but I can attest
that Pixwell survived and fruited – rather heavily – in full sun
here for years before my wife made me move it, because it was invading the
blueberries(which she bulldozed out last year to put in a tennis court). Pixwell may not be ‘much punkin’, as they say here,
but even a low-quality gooseberry beats no gooseberries at all. I think I’ve got a Glenndale plant somewhere under a big
old post oak at the top of the pond, but I didn’t brave the ticks and
chiggers to wade over there when it should have been fruiting this summer. Lucky |
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