I have grown, maintained, and harvested blackcurrant, redcurrant, and whitecurrant bushes in walled kitchen gardens and on my home plots for many years. I always found them simple to grow, easy to ...

Pruning bush fruits is as simple as removing older canes each year, and currants can also be trained into decorative forms. Red currants and their albino white form (which you can treat in the same ...

This is also a handy way to control aphids. They usually colonise the tips of the shoots causing leaf distortion and curling, which makes spraying difficult. Growing gooseberries and red or white ...

Gooseberries and red and white currants are all pruned in the same way. They produce fruit on older wood and at the base of the previous season's shoots. Delay pruning until late winter, as this ...

Black, white and red currants establish well if planted now as bareroot plants The heady fragrance of currants as they ripen in late summer – those sharp, herbal and musky smells – permeate the air ...