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Yes this can work but it will be probably be two or more likely three years before you have fruit. I find that gooseberry Hinnonmaki makes roots on branches that lie on soil and I have grown them on after cutting free of the parent plant, but I sold the plants and don’t know how they fruited. I would try it, it will give you pleasure and that lovely creative feeling.
One of the “senior” gardeners on our allotments takes cuttings of any soft fruit he can get his hands on – black and red currants, gooseberries, loganberries, Worcesterberries and Jostaberries (not yet blueberries, and raspberries offshoots we have loads of). He makes a slit trench with his spade, drops them in about 4 inches and about the same apart, closes the trench with his heel and ignores them completely. Every year he has at least ten rooted cuttings of each variety to help new gardeners. We also use some of the thorny ones to add variety and edibility to the site hedgerows. Crops are small the first season but seem to increase thereafter. The site is on heavy Nottingham clay.
I’ve always tended to refer to the ‘senior’ gardeners on our allotments as the old boys, but I like your description better, Sue – much more respectful and acknowledges the fact that they are generally senior in experience as well as age!
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