Assuming they have survived the cold, I have lots of Chinese gooseberry
seedlings. However, you need a male and a female vine if you want fruit,
and I have no idea if you can tell the sexes apart before they begin to
flower.

You're welcome to some though. Or you can just set some seed straight
from a fruit

That's a really kind offer. Whereabouts are you? Would they survive the
Royal Mail, do you think?! I don't know if I have anything I could offer by
way of a trade . . .

I suppose the best thing to do would be to plant half-a-dozen plants in the
pot, and then as soon as they have flowered for the first time, get rid of
all of them except the strongest male and female. I'd have to take some
advice on how to tell them apart though!

They've got some really nice, big terracotta pots down at B&Q, they cost an
arm and a leg, but one as a luxury for the Chinese Gooseberries is in order,
I think. I've also decided to build a kind of lean-to greenhouse in the
corner of the garden (see separate thread) where I'm going to have the
vines, where the house meets the highest garden wall. It gets all the
morning sun, but not so much directly in the afternoon. There's stuff
growing there now, so hopefully it will be OK. In fact, some hyacinths have
come up in that corner, which surprised me because someone told me they
wouldn't come up until March. My garden is very warm and sheltered though,
for the frozen North.

Hopefully having the vines in this improvised greenhouse will increase my
chances of a decent crop of grapes and gooseberries! And it will be nice to
be able to sit inside it with a cuppa on a rainy day.

Andrew