Goos gogs

[tommy the cat]

Well they're kind of floppy and not sure how to prune them?

 

[Toddy]

If you want to train them agin a fence or wall, that's possible if you tie in the branches. If it's free standing then a 'goblet' shape is the usual aim. I bought a standard one this Spring to try to make things easy for myself.

The RHS site has guidance on pruning.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=332

atb,
M

 

[Harvestman]

Great things,

Why (and this is a personal bugbear, no criticism intended) does everyone call them goosegogs (or something similar ish)? We don't do this for blackcurrants, or raspberries, or anything else. Why not just gooseberries??

Just curious.

 

[Toddy]

I don't....we call them Grossets

http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=4337&startset=15826453&dtext=snd&query=GROSET

M

 

[tommy the cat]

Goos gogs? ? Dunno really... neither do I know why we call potatoes tatties? ??

 

[Toddy]

Where did the 'goose' bit in the name come from anyway ?

cheers,
M

 

[nitrambur]

Where did the 'goose' bit in the name come from anyway ?

cheers,
M

Probably from goose-bumps

 

[Toddy]

But goosebumps on our skin do look like a plucked goose....sort of

M

 

[nitrambur]

don't the hairs on gooseberries look like the raised hairs of goosebumps?

 

[GGTBod]

For me they were introduced to me as goosegogs at about 7 and only found the real name about 5 years later, by then it was stuck in there, same for blackberries being Blackaas, as in "Are we gannin blackaa picking or what lyke? or "There's loads of Blackaas doon the railway line, you comin doon?"

Feel like the Geordie Irving Welsh now or Our Willie