Grow Your Own Fresh Fruit!
Gooseberry bush ‘Hinnomaki’ Red, produces a heavy crop of large red gooseberries in mid July which have a sweet flesh and tangy skin. Delicious eaten fresh from the tree, this plant is self fertile so doesn’t require a pollination partner. Fruits have tangy outer skin and succulent sweet flesh for a unique ‘sweet-tart’ flavor. They also make some of the best pies you’ve ever tasted. This is our most recommended variety of gooseberry and has great disease resistance. When the fruits turn red they are ready to pick, it’s that simple. They retain the red color during cooking – they taste and look superb. Plant has good vigor and will have heavy crops.
Gooseberries are considered as a gift of nature to human mankind for the benefits it provides. No other single fruit or herb is as rich in different nutrients as a gooseberry. Gooseberries contain high amount of Vitamin C along with other nutrients like Vitamin A, iron, calcium, magnesium and potassium. A single gooseberry contains more than 500 mg of Vitamin C than orange, which is highly rich in Vitamin C. Also, the taste of gooseberries makes them a very preferred consumable item. Usually gooseberries are green to golden in color but some gooseberries can be deep purple in color as well.
