4. Companion Planting
Companion planting is an important thing for new and first-time gardeners to learn, and it can help you a great deal when you’re still in the planning phase to decide just what you’d like to plant around your gooseberries first.
Gooseberries aren’t all that difficult when it comes to selecting companion plants for it. Ideally, plant them together with other varieties that are part of the nightshade family, such as tomatoes or potatoes – they also tend to grow happily with some types of berry plants like strawberries that prefer more or less the same soil conditions.
For companion planting further away from gooseberries, some people even like to plant things like mint in order to ward off any insects that might become a problem.
Bad things to plant with gooseberries include anything that can take over in terms of either space or sunlight – you don’t want to put gooseberries in too much shade because of a larger tree or bush that’s growing next to it.