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Pixwell Gooseberry
Pixwell Gooseberry
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Pixwell Gooseberry is a compact, productive cultivar with fewer thorns than many gooseberries. Its small to medium pale green berries develop a pink blush as they ripen in mid summer. The tart fruit has mild sweetness and can be eaten fresh when fully ripe or used for pies, jam, and jelly.
The berries hang below the branches on short stems and are relatively easy to pick, which gave the cultivar its name. Pixwell also has useful resistance to mildew.
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Growing details
- Hardiness
- Zone 3
- Mature size
- 3 to 5 ft tall and wideCompact and productive, with fewer thorns than many gooseberries
- Fruit
- Small to medium pale green berries that blush pink as they ripenTart with a mild sweetness. Good fresh when fully ripe, and for pies, jam and jelly
- Picking
- Berries hang below the branches on short stemsEasy to pick, which gave the variety its name
- Disease
- Useful resistance to mildew
- Season
- Mid summer
- Site and soil
- Full sun or part shadeMore sun means more fruit
The history of PixwellPOMOLOGICA · from the record
Pixwell is a gooseberry bred at the North Dakota Experiment Station and introduced in 1932, a hybrid of the wild gooseberry of the plains with a garden variety. It was in a South Dakota circular in 1943 and is on the University of Saskatchewan's list today.
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Read the full account on Pomologica →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.
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