Growing gooseberries, currents, and jostaberries is easy to make money on by selling to a local restaurant or making ...

Look out for gooseberry sawfly from late spring onwards. Check leaves regularly for caterpillar damage and control by hand. If this is proving hard, spray bushes regularly with an insecticide.

The first thing to do is pickle your gooseberries. Put the vinegar, sugar, sea salt, juniper berries, mustard seeds, peppercorns and bay leaf in a small saucepan along with 150ml of water.