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30 Aug 14, sue (Australia - temperate climate)

I bought my gooseberry plants from Bunnings last year.

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19 Jan 14, Sid Dyer (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Where can I buy Cape Gooseberry' Plants OR Seeds in Australia...They are 'YUM" Barbara D.

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19 Jan 14, Chris (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Eden Seeds have Cape Gooseberry seeds

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18 Jan 14, Roslyn campbell (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Dear Brad Did u get an answer to yr query as to why you r getting no fruit? I am having the same problem

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09 Jan 14, ray obrien (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

where can i please buy some cape gooseberries or some seeds we live on bribie island just 1 hr north of brisbane and our email is sideshowalley@westnet.com.au and our phone is [07] 3408 8787 thank you i think they are the nicest fruit

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10 Jan 14, Nina (Australia - temperate climate)

I never liked this fruit as a child but now I'm crazy about them :) Did you have any luck getting seeds? If not, I can post you some (next time I buy the dried Inca berries - or if you can get the dried fruit, save your own) ... or if you happen to be in Sydney I'll dig you up a plant. Mine are still small and not yet fruiting.

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04 Apr 14, Venus Law (Australia - temperate climate)

Nina! I looking for cape gooseberry seed too... I have plenty of Husk Tomato seed...I lived in Sydney as well.. Can we exchange it. Venus

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22 Dec 13, vera (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

We are living at the Mid North Coast and and this plant popps up at several spots in the garden, I completly neglect them, dont even water them. Plenty of fruit which my toddler demolishes daily. But we sometimes get an infestation of a yellow stripey beetle who mates on the leaves and severly damages some of the plants, any idea what that could be and how to treat it? cheers

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26 Jun 14, Jill (Australia - temperate climate)

I think the yellow beetle is also known as the elm leaf beetle. I have a lot of plants and I get a plague of them in summer. I usually try and manually remove them because even though they are unsightly they actually prefer the leaves to the fruit so you can at least still get a crop. For this reason I don't spray them as they are a seasonal pest and aren't around in the cooler months. The plant does fine in cold weather even with frost and usually gives me a smaller winter crop although they take longer to ripen.

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23 Apr 14, Elissa (Australia - temperate climate)

I got the stripy beetles too. Pyrethrum seems to get rid of them.

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