I love sweet peas, that scent, but here it gets hot too soon and they wither. I used to have a gooseberry bush in a long ago garden, illegal in this state. Such a lawbreaker, but it was there when we bought the house.
The gooseberry bush is illegal in NJ. White pine is an important state product, and gooseberries are a vector of white pine blister rust, deadly tree disease. So you can't import or plant the bushes. I quietly made pies and jam with mine, hoping the white pine police didn't come for me.
Sweet peas are one of my favorites but we have to plant them in November or December and I never remember. Gooseberries don't do well in my part of TX - too hot and humid and flat I suspect.
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I love sweet peas, that scent, but here it gets hot too soon and they wither. I used to have a gooseberry bush in a long ago garden, illegal in this state. Such a lawbreaker, but it was there when we bought the house.
Do you make gooseberry pie? What else do you do with them?
Sweet peas illegal??
Gooseberry crumble usually, Debra. Although Husband is talking about making jam.
The gooseberry bush is illegal in NJ. White pine is an important state product, and gooseberries are a vector of white pine blister rust, deadly tree disease. So you can't import or plant the bushes. I quietly made pies and jam with mine, hoping the white pine police didn't come for me.
Sweet peas are one of my favorites but we have to plant them in November or December and I never remember. Gooseberries don't do well in my part of TX - too hot and humid and flat I suspect.
How do you use the gooseberries?
Usually in a dessert - pie or crumble - Marie, but you can make jam with them, and they're a popular sauce for mackerel.
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