Lady Delamare is an English variety. The bush grows very strongly, it has a spherical habit, irregular. It sprouts straight shoots, often prematurely branched, all armed with strong spikes. They are long, double or triple, less often single. Large leaves, green, with a yellowish tinge, matte, often three-flap. Flaps sharp in outline. This variety begins vegetation a little earlier than others. It bears fruit early, already in the second – the third year after planting, enters into full fruiting 5-6 year. It bears fruit abundantly, giving on average approx 12 kg thin. It has relatively low soil requirements. The fruit is large, fairly even, oval, elongated, mostly seated singly. Light green skin with a yellowish tinge, sometimes with red-brown spots, sparsely hairy at the stalk and calyx, almost naked, with lighter veins, highly branched, thin, strong. Green flesh, juicy, sweetish-sour, weakly aromatic, very tasty. When fully ripe, the fruit falls and stays poorly.
Green Bottle – English variety. It is the latest maturing variety – in the second half of July, mainly grown for preserves. The bush grows strongly, its habit is wide. It produces numerous shoots, medium thickness, straight or arched at the top, often prematurely branched or leafy, fully in vegetation, green with a reddish-brown tinge at the top. Single spikes, Long, dark brown, slightly downward. Large leaves, Dark green, leathery, slightly wrinkled, shimmering. Sharp flaps. It begins to bear fruit abundantly early. The fruit can undergo sunburn. Requires fertile soil, wet. It produces large or very large fruit, weighing approximately 18 g, ovate, elongated, sometimes pear-shaped, embedded individually, less often for two. Thin skin, but opaque, dark green, Young nudes, Poorly hairy at the stalk, red-brown on the nerves, poplamion, with pronounced light green veins of a yellowish tinge. Green flesh, juicy, sour-sweet, weakly aromatic. The fruits ripen fairly evenly, ripe fall off. The variety is sensitive to mildew.
Gooseberries can be propagated in a variety of ways – by lay-ups, mounds and herbaceous cuttings. In our conditions, it is easiest to propagate gooseberries by flat or regular layering, which is performed in early spring. If we have a frame or a heated greenhouse, we can propagate gooseberries through herbaceous cuttings, Cut at the end of June or beginning of July. The production of standing gooseberries requires professional preparation and a heated greenhouse.
It is obtained, grafting a noble variety on a golden currant stump (Golden Ribes). For this, you need to prepare well-rooted cuttings. Slips are placed at a height of approx 1 m, in the first days of March and the plants are placed in a heated greenhouse. In the fall, ready planting material is obtained for a permanent place. Vaccination is also successful in the ground (made in March), but not as efficient as in a greenhouse.
Gooseberry diseases and pests
The most dangerous gooseberry disease is the American gooseberry mildew. It will smash the fruit, as well as leaves and shoots. The symptoms of the disease are most pronounced on the fruit, on which brown is formed, woolly raid. The bushes weaken when the leaves and shoots are severely infected, low fruiting and easy freezing during harsh winters. Shoots with mildew symptoms should be cut and sprayed with Bayleton immediately after flowering 50 WP (0,075%) and repeat the treatment twice every 10 days.
Rainfall may also occur on the gooseberry (anthracnose) leaves and white leaf spot. They occur, paralyzing leaves, late spring, whereby the leaves fall prematurely, which causes a significant reduction in yield. These diseases should be combated with the same preparations, as the American gooseberry mildew and on the same dates.
Gooseberries can be attacked by hop spider mites a, which leads to discoloration, and then to leaf fall.
It is fought against, by spraying the plant after flowering with Roztoczol ex. Pł. 8 (0,2%).
In the event of a currant sight – whose caterpillars feed inside the shoot, by eating his core, as a result of which it withers, and then it withers – the infected bushes should be cut out during the spring screening, deformed shoots and burn them.
Gooseberry ball and currant hummingbird – the larvae of these pests eat up the leaves. If they occur en masse, they can destroy all foliage. They are fought against, by spraying the bushes in the early feeding period of the larvae: Metox, Col.. 30 in concentration 0,6%, Foschlor of Colonel. 25 – 0,5% or Sadofos Pł. 30 – 0,3%.