Mark Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Can one buy gooseberry bushes in France or don't us French people like them? Haven't seen any in garden centres/marchés. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Must do, I've bought the confiture. Unless they import it from the UK, of course... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisymay Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I saw some in Delbart Limoges in the Autumn. They were the sweet red type not the tart ones we british seem to like. I decided against it but I can't remember why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJSLIV Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 look for GROSEILLIER A MAQUEREAU Not especially recommending the supplier, but an idea of whats availablehttp://www.willemsefrance.fr/qwisersearch/MsXML/HomePageXml.asp?motCle=groseille+%E0+maquereau+&ok2.x=20&ok2.y=15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Gooooooseberries ruin the memory, you know. That's why Mark can't find any.Why are they called gooseberries? Do geese eat them? They don't look very goosey, or taste of goose. You don't have to shave a goose, or pull that little pip out of the end. So that when you are a kid and your mother tells you to do a whole bucket of them they all split so you eat them and get sick and ...Sorry. I'll have a little lie-down now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 They're called groseilles à maquereau and are usually served to accompany fatty fish like... maquereau [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliveau Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 [quote user="Mark"]Can one buy gooseberry bushes in France or don't us French people like them? Haven't seen any in garden centres/marchés. [/quote]I got some in the local Bricomarché last spring - both green and red. But they don't seem to have them in stock for very long.Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracteurtom Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I've got a bush or 2 coming from the UK in August.................I hope! Cant wait, gooseberry and rhubard crumble served warm with ice cream, or plain gooseberry pie, now I need a lie down!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony F Dordogne Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I bought some in France Rurale last year, the white ones rather than the red. Coming along grand, overwintered well and pruned the layers off them today.Looking out for the red ones now, should have some at the plant fair in La Bugue in the next few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 [quote user="Dick Smith"]Gooooooseberries ruin the memory, you know. That's why Mark can't find any.Why are they called gooseberries? Do geese eat them? They don't look very goosey, or taste of goose. You don't have to shave a goose, or pull that little pip out of the end. So that when you are a kid and your mother tells you to do a whole bucket of them they all split so you eat them and get sick and ...Sorry. I'll have a little lie-down now.[/quote]Dick (see, i remembered to write D in upper case)as long as you don't PLAY gooseberry, that's ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 We bought one as part of a set of three, raspberry, blackcurrent and gooseberry bushes from Brico-Marche in Gencay.and remember "it's only the hair on a gooseberry, that stops it from being a grape" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark23200 Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 HiI managed to buy 2 bushes in E Leclerc in Limoges last September - are they supposed to be budding leaves yet - does anyone know??Jo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Ours are coming into leaf now, buds are bursting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 [quote user="Dick Smith"]Why are they called gooseberries? Do geese eat them? They don't look very goosey, or taste of goose. You don't have to shave a goose, or pull that little pip out of the end. So that when you are a kid and your mother tells you to do a whole bucket of them they all split so you eat them and get sick and ...[/quote]Do they go well with goose - fatty bird, oily fish?Corruption of groseiller or another similar root word (seems unlikely)?Do people like to squeeze them for a thrill?Did French kids (gosses) import them to Britain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Bakker stock them and I have never had anything delivered from them that has failed to grow.http://www.bakker.fr/index.aspx?N=900358&start=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 On the other hand:EtymologyThe first part of the word has been usually treated as an etymological corruption either of the Dutch word Kruisbezie or the allied German Krausbeere, or of the earlier forms of the French groseille. Alternatively the word has been connected to the Middle High German krus (curl, crisped), in Latin as grossularia. However, the New English Dictionary takes the obvious derivation from goose and berry as probable; the grounds on which plants and fruits have received names associating them with animalsare so often inexplicable, that the inappropriateness in the meaningdoes not necessarily give good grounds for believing that the word isan etymological corruption.So, the inappropriateness of the meaning in the - NURSE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alison Robinson Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Got mine from Jacques Briant last year, and they are growing well- can't find them in the catalogue- maybe tryhttp://www.graines-baumaux.fr/Look under petits fruits/Groseilliers/ they have GROSEILLIER à MAQUEREAUX HINNONMAKI JAUNE fruitsjaune foncé un peu vert, sucrés et parfumés, à la saveur légèrementabrictotée, grosse production en juillet. Très résistante aux maladieset au froid. 1 plante en pot de 2 litres. Réf : 8363 Prix : 9,90 € Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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