I'll be ripping out the rest of the drift rose hedge in the next day or two. They were originally planted for crowd control from the sidewalk (people sprawling, sitting in the area leaving garbage & more illicit materials, and walking through the strip to steal flowers) and to keep people's dogs out of an area since they were not cleaning up after them.

It took me a while to come up with an alternative. Gooseberries. Now, I should get the same crowd control (they're thorny) as well as provide flowers for pollinators and berries for us and birds. I hope to keep them trained into a hedge like shape but only a few feet high.

I haven't grown gooseberries before. While they have all leafed out in their packages, I've been bringing them inside at night. Good weather for the foreseeable future but unsure if they can take a late frost. I'd like to get them in the ground ASAP.

Does anyone have experience with gooseberries? Can they tolerate a temperature drop if it happens?

I grew up eating Gooseberries in Germany. My area around Erfurt had a frost date around the middle of May and those bushes grew in everyone's garden. So you would think they should be able to take it. ....once acclimatized?

These are new shoots so I'm worried that maybe they wouldn't be able to handle transplant shock and frost.

Perhaps it is a good idea to be a bit careful just this Spring.