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Gooseberries · rare

Leveller

The show-bench gooseberry. Large, golden-yellow berries with a sweetness and flavour that wins competitions. More demanding to grow well — it wants rich soil and careful pruning — but the berries are in a different class. The gooseberry growers' gooseberry.

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in the kitchen

Fresh gooseberries with sugar

Top, tail, and eat the golden berries raw, dipped in caster sugar. When a gooseberry is this sweet and this flavourful, cooking it would be a crime. A bowl of these and a sunny afternoon is all you need.

where to find the seeds

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