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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

i'm new to growing fruit bushes and would like some advice on how to build a support for them. I've got canes and string, just lack the knowhow. Whaty sort of fruit bushes? 1 Gooseberry, 1 blackcurrant and 1 raspberry ( planted others but they didn

a blackcurrant bushVideo advice on growing summer fruiting raspberries with Monty Don.View spring blooming bulbsBrowse a variety of fruit plantsChoose plants suitable to acidic soil

Hello, I brought an blackcurrant plant about 3 years ago now from the garden centre and I just planted it in my fruit patch A year ago I saw some flowers grow on a branch they soon deleloped into fruit but before i could harvest my first crop green

hopefully it will grow in mine. Navrsi, that is cold!Pruning blackcurrants to a standard shape is not at all common, though I'm sure they look lovely. Some people prune at harvest time: in the summer take off a third of the older branches and cut them low in

, but insipid. Wouldn't bother, grow black or red currants for wonderful fruit, enjoy the ribes for their spring flowers.  We recently bought a house with a garden which had a couple of true blackcurrant bushes and an ornamental ribes.  i severely pruned

.One example of this new wave is the outdoor melon 'Emir' (F1), which crops well outside, even in British summers (though it's important not to grow it in a windy spot). 'Emir' is part of Johnson's 'Welcome to eastern Europe' seed range (available from

Garin' is a good choice for smaller gardens. Blackcurrants grow on new wood. When I harvest the currants I also prune at the same time, cutting out a third of the plant each year.This tangy, mouth-watering recipe for blackcurrant cream is not only

pic is red valerian.   I think, pic 4 ( or summer fruiting bush, as you put it ) is a blackcurrant bush, I've been trying to think where I've seen the same shaped leaves before - I have a blackcurrant bush at the allotment and the leaves look very

among my cllection of herbs I have been growing for several years is Sweet cicely. Pretty ferny foliage and white flowers at this time of year followed by black seeds.I have been told that you can use it to reduce the amount of suger when cooking