a gooseberry bush will grow to a height of five feet
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Rows of gooseberry bushes now yield fruit for pies and jams.
Gooseberry bushes grow wild in most of the northern temperate zone, flourishing in cool, moist, or high regions.
Gooseberry bushes need pruning in July, and what you are aiming for is easy access for the fruit and good airflow through the branches.
He feeds his gooseberry bushes with a secret nutrient recipe and monitors their progress round-the-clock.
Propagate new gooseberry bushes by taking hardwood cuttings from healthy plants before their leaves drop
Every time my gooseberry bush starts to bear fruit, it develops a fungus.
Autumn into winter is an excellent time for planting gooseberry bushes.
Up on the Yorkshire Moors, villagers are nursing their precious gooseberry bushes ahead of their annual gooseberry show on 7 August.
I would be grateful if you could tell me the best time to prune a gooseberry bush.
The orchard already boasts 50 different varieties of apple trees, and next month strawberry and gooseberry bushes are to be planted.
1.1British Used, especially in answer to a child's question, to refer to the place where newborn babies are found.
according to my parents I was found under a gooseberry bush
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There are no storks or gooseberry bushes but a cast of midwives, grave robbers, priests, and scientists in a tale of birth, sex and death that is guaranteed to intrigue.
When I was a little girl, children were led to believe that babies were found under the gooseberry bush.
Surely everyone knows you need a gooseberry bush in the garden, because that's where you find babies.
I am in no fit state to discuss anything more clinically realistic than babies dropping out of the sky and landing on marshmallow blankets under a gooseberry bush.
She didn't arrive from under a gooseberry bush.
If your child wants to know how babies are made, tell him "in Mommy's tummy," and not "found under a gooseberry bush."
Do you mean how did you begin inside your mum's womb (echoes of our conversation about the stork and the gooseberry bush) or why did your mum decide to have a baby?
Wexford laughed. "A gooseberry bush is what you find babies under."