Gooseberry Pax

The Pax gooseberry variety will give some zest to your summer cottage, suburban or garden plot, endow the body of your whole family with useful trace elements and vitamins for the entire autumn season, and this gooseberry variety will also bring a stable and large amount of harvest.

You will learn more about the specifics of this fruiting shrub, instructions for growing and caring for it later in this article.

Gooseberry Pax: variety description

This gooseberry variety was obtained by Canadian breeding specialists.

Practically without thorns, with sweet, but not sugary fruits, with an early ripening period, solely because of this, the Pax gooseberry variety fell in love with all summer residents and gardeners.

This fruiting gooseberry shrub takes root well in the soil and does not conflict with other representatives of herbaceous crops in a summer cottage, suburban or personal plot.

Characteristics of this representative of the herbaceous culture:

• A plant growing for several years.
• The plant grows to a height of one hundred to one hundred twenty centimeters.

Branches of this fruiting shrub:

• They have a skeletal structure.
• A very thin, slightly detached, shiny, brown peel is located over the entire area of ​​the branch.
• Shoots bend very easily, grow for one year, gray color.
• Leaves with wrinkles, bright green color, have two to five lobes, the shape resembles an egg.
• Foliage grows up to sixty millimeters.

This fruiting Pax gooseberry shrub forms inflorescences as one of the first shrubs to bear fruit, around the end of the spring season, at the beginning of the summer season.

Fruits have the correct oval shape, very large size, have data characteristics:

• Their mass most often reaches seven to nine grams, and when grown on a trellis, the mass of fruits reaches up to twelve grams.
• The length of the fruit usually reaches three to three and a half centimeters.
• The shape of the fruit has a regular oval shape.
• The color of the shell is pink or red, but only when it is fully ripe.
• The shell is very dense, with villi and veins located throughout the berry area.
• In terms of taste, the berry is sour and sweet at the same time, the sweet taste directly depends on the days spent in the sunlight.
• There are numerous seeds inside the berry.

The fruit also contains numerous vitamins, for example:

• retinol
• ascorbic acid
• vitamins belonging to group B
• vitamin E
• vitamin belonging to the PP group
• B-carotene.

Nutritionists highly recommend eating berries for people suffering from obesity of various degrees, with excess weight, because one hundred grams of berries contain only forty-five kilocalories.

Gooseberry variety Pax: advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Dignity this variety of Pax gooseberry:

• high level of resistance to cold up to minus thirty degrees.
• high level of drought tolerance.
• the possibility of growing on trellises.
• a stable and large amount of harvest, usually up to thirty kilograms of berries are harvested from each shrub.
• if there is too much volume, the shrub yields a stable and large amount of yield.
• scanty presence of thorns, most of the old fruiting gooseberry bushes (almost ninety-five percent) have absolutely no thorns.
• the plant has no particular preferences in the choice of soil for further growth.
• high level of resistance to all types of bioaggression.
• the possibility of transportation over long distances.
• availability of the possibility of long-term storage.

There is also limitations, like all other representatives of herbaceous crops:

• the presence of root growth.
• a high tendency of the fruiting shrub to thicken, which means that the procedure for pruning and forming the crown is necessary.
• the likelihood of catching a different disease from an infected fungus.

It will not be difficult to eliminate the disadvantages, it is important to take proper care of this plant.

Instructions for the cultivation and care of Pax gooseberries

It is customary to plant Pax gooseberry seedlings in the autumn season.

In the southern and central territory of our country, where the night temperature does not drop to critical levels, it is allowed to plant at the end of the autumn season, and in the northern parts of Russia this plant can be planted on the fifteenth of the second autumn month.

In these situations, you do not need to think for a long time that, before the onset of cold weather, this fruiting shrub will have time to calmly take root in the soil and take root during the winter season.

This type of gooseberry variety Pax does not require complex maintenance. This shrub grows well and bears berries in a variety of soils.

But despite this, if you want to get a stable and large amount of harvest, it is recommended to plant the plant in areas with sufficient sunlight.

Growing in an area with sufficient sunshine and little wind:

• will stop the development of various infectious diseases.
• will protect the plant from the beginning of the decay process.
• will not damage the high level of resistance to adverse weather conditions.

For a summer cottage, suburban or personal plot, gardeners with experience recommend purchasing Pax gooseberry seedlings that have reached the age of one or two years, because they take root faster.

Site preparation:

• dig up all the soil.
• We advise you to make a planting hole in advance about seven days in advance and add top dressing to it.

For self-production of fertilizer you will need:

• six kilograms of rotten mullein.
• ten kilograms of compost or peat.
• one liter of wood ash.
• twenty grams of urea (or any other mineral).

The process of planting this type of gooseberry:

Before the direct process of planting a fruiting shrub, it is necessary to wet the root system of young representatives of herbaceous crops in a mash made of earth or clay that resembles sour cream.

Then follow the instructions below:

• To make planting holes with an approximate depth of fifty to eighty centimeters and a diameter of eighty to one hundred centimeters, the space between the planting holes should be seventy to one hundred centimeters, if you plant the plants separately, and if with a group, then the space between the planting holes should be about two hundred to two hundred fifty centimeters.
• place the seedling at the bottom of the planting hole.
• sprinkle garden soil or a pre-prepared mixture on the shrub: soil for seedlings, sand and black soil, all in equal amounts.
• Moisten the soil under all the shrubs with twelve liters of water.

It is important to remember to mulch the soil. Use sawdust or dried grass to make a layer of mulch.

During planting on the territory, the root system must be carefully spread out so that it does not get confused with each other.

Detailed care instructions for Pax gooseberries

It is extremely important to arrange good soil moisture at the end of the autumn season, the approximate water consumption for each fruiting shrub is two to four buckets. This will contribute to a good transfer of the winter season.

At other times, moisten the soil in a timely manner.

After each procedure for moistening the soil, it is necessary to make a layer of mulch of one hundred to one hundred and fifty grams, for example from:

• sawdust,
• dried herb,
• soil.

Apply organic and mineral fertilizers to the soil as needed, this will increase the level of plant resistance, increase the amount of harvest and increase the taste of berries.

It is necessary to carry out the procedure for the formation of the crown and pruning of the shrub.

Various insects - parasites and infectious diseases

Healthy and strong seedlings of this variety of gooseberry varieties Pax have a high level of resistance to various diseases, however, weak representatives of herbaceous crops can be attacked by these parasites:

• sprout aphid,
• moth
• a pale-footed saw-cutter.

In addition, this plant can become infected with anthracnose, powdery mildew and septoria.

Gooseberry Pax: reviews of gardeners

Andrei:

This is the first time I plant this gooseberry variety, I got a small amount of berries, but a large one. The shrubs developed rapidly. The gooseberry does not have a single thorn.

Maxim:

I have grown pink berries that look like reddish ones. Not sugary sweet, about thirty millimeters in diameter. Planted fifteen gooseberry bushes and only ten survived. All due to the wrong choice of seedlings. I recommend.

Svetlana:

I planted two varieties of gooseberries at the same time, this and nonslukhovsky... And I liked the Pax variety much more. I love sweet, not sour berries.

As you can see, all the reviews are good.

At the beginning of the summer season, you can get sweet and large berries.