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Blackcurrants are easy to grow and more tolerant of heavy soils than other currant bushes. Just one plant can provide a generous crop of berries. If blackcurrant bushes are kept well fed and watered you could be harvesting fruit a year after planting.
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Choose an open and sunny site. Fork over a wide area of ground, then dig a hole deep enough to accommodate the roots of your fruit bush.
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Tip plenty of garden compost into the hole and fork it deep into the soil.
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Sprinkle a handful of fertiliser in the hole and fork it into the soil.
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Spread the roots of the blackcurrant bush out evenly across the hole area, teasing them out carefully.
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Fill in around the roots with soil, firming it down with your foot as you go, to remove any air pockets.
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Water the plant in well, soaking the area to help settle the soil down around the plant's roots.
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Prune all the shoots right back to encourage new growth from below soil level.
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By summer the bush will have formed plenty of new shoots that will carry fruit the following summer.
Mail order fruit nurseries have a great range of bare-root plants in autumn and winter.
Jack Taylor 27/01/2012 at 15:32
I have a new border 20in wide by 35ft long running along a 6ft high fence at the edge of my lawn. I plan to plant Blackcurrants, Raspberries, Blackberries and Blueberries in this bed. Can you tell me how far apart I should plant them and any other advice that you think might help me. This is the first time I will have planted fruit bushes directly in the ground. Jack
karen Richards Yesterday at 03:01
Hi thereWe planted a blackcurrant bush and a loganbery bush a few months ago and nothing seems to be happening with either. We water and feed the bushes often, but still nothing. Any ideas what we may be doing wrongThanksKaren
