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Oregon Champion Gooseberry
Oregon Champion Gooseberry
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Oregon Champion is a thorny gooseberry raised in Oregon around 1860. Vigorous productive plants bear small green berries that ripen to soft yellow green with tangy sweet flavour.
The fruit is suited to fresh eating, jam, jelly, and desserts. Oregon Champion is resistant to American gooseberry mildew and is adapted to cool moist climates.
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Growing details
- Hardiness
- Zone 3
- Mature size
- 3 to 5 ft tall and 3 to 6 ft wideA vigorous, thorny bush
- Fruit
- Small green berries that ripen to a soft yellow greenTangy and sweet, for fresh eating, jam and jelly
- Disease
- Resistant to gooseberry mildew
- First fruit
- One to three years after plantingTypical for gooseberries
- Site and soil
- Best in cool, moist conditions
More about this plant
An old Oregon gooseberry
Oregon Champion was raised in Oregon around 1860 by P. Prettyman from a cross of Crown Bob and Houghton. Gooseberries flower early in spring, so a late frost can cost some of the crop.
Cold hardinessZone 3 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 3 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – CanadaPollination
One plant sets fruit on its own. A second gooseberry is not needed.