Grow Your Own Fresh Fruit!
‘Oregon Champion’ is excellent for pies, jams, canning, and wine. It has medium to large, yellowish green berries. Flavor will sweeten as it ripens. This is a productive, vigorous plant that will grow 3 to 5 feet tall. Berries hold well on the bush. Oregon Champion will start bearing fruit the second year and produce for approximately 20 years. Originated in Salem, Oregon in 1876 as a hybrid from cross of Crown Bob with Houghton. With a great taste, this small fruit is very easy to consume. Every individual must consume gooseberries as it provides many nutrients inside a small fruit and also helps in maintaining a good health.
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.
