The Invicta Gooseberries have started to drop off the plant so they were picked. The 3 year old bush yielded 7lb of gooseberries.

There are two types of gooseberry varieties:

• cooking gooseberries are often picked in the green or immature stage, but when they have reached full size.
• desert gooseberries are left on the bush until they become pink, softer and develop a sweeter flavour.

• individually or
• stripped off the stem with the leaves (wear leather gloves) and separated later

The gooseberries have a stalk which attaches them to the parent bush. At the other end is the remains of the flower.

So the gooseberry must be topped and tailed with scissors before eating.

Further information on gooseberries can be found here.