Top tips for growing currants

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Redcurrants and Whitecurrants – Top Tips for Successful Growing

Redcurrants, and their less well known cousins, whitecurrants are some of the most useful, and most easily grown fruit bushes available to the gardener. Not only do they produce tasty nutritious fruit, crammed with Vitamin C and anti-oxidants but . . . → Read More: Top tips for growing currants

Blackcurrant Planting and Growing

Blackcurrant Plants Photo by Tim Knight

Planting

Having established the most favourable site with suitable soil, the grower is ready to begin planting. The grower must also choose a range of varieties, suitable for their location; for example, later flowering varieties can be planted in more frost susceptible areas, as they are less . . . → Read More: Blackcurrant Planting and Growing

Salmonberry

Salmonberry Blossom Photo by David McMaster

Botanical Name: Rubus spectabilis

Contributed By: USDA, NRCS, National Plant Data Center & Oregon Plant Materials Center

Uses

Ethnobotanical: Salmonberry fruits are edible, but are considered too soft to dry. Both the large, raspberry-like fruit and the young shoots were widely eaten by coastal peoples of British . . . → Read More: Salmonberry