Captivator Gooseberry Plants

Captivator Gooseberry Plants

Captivator is a reliable bush gooseberry with red (almost burgundy coloured) sweet fruit from July. It's a vigorous, spreading plant with good disease resistance. The plants we supply are strong, 2 year old bushes with 3-5 shoots each. Captivator gooseberries were bred in Canada and so are enormously hardy.

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Features

• Almost Thornless (a few fairly soft spines on new wood).
• Self-fertile.
• Red-pink fruit, sweet.
• Crops steadily from July.
• Mildew & leaf spot resistant.

Growing Captivator Gooseberry Plants:

Mature bushes will probably need some bamboo canes for support as the weight of fruit pulls down the branches.
Rich soil is essential - dig in good manure and compost before planting. Gooseberries do very well in cold places.

History & Trivia

This hybrid of the European Gooseberry, Ribes uva-crispa, and the North American Ribes hirtellum was bred at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Canada, in 1935, but not released until after the war in 1949.