How to Grow Currants, Lots of Tips and Ideas for Growing Currants

I can still see Mum and Auntie in their sun hats picking

Growing CURRANTS red or black

Growing Currants in the Edible Landscape + How to Use Them

Currant bushes are a great addition to the edible landscape. See how we grow them in our front yard landscape, and find out how to use currants in the kitchen.

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How to Plant a Black Currant Bush

Learn how to plant a black currant bush with this gardening guide from HGTV Gardens.

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This splendid variety is now the most widely planted redcurrant because of it's very high yields of top quality glossy fruit. It's a late cropper being ready to pick from late July so usefully providing a bumper harvest when other soft fruit is waning. Tangy and juicy and perfect for jams jellies and summer pudding!

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Beautiful red currants growing in the garden. I remember them from my great-grandmother's home.

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How to Grow a Red Currant Bush

Red currant bushes are easy-care, hardy shrubs that produce fruit suitable for pies, jams and other preserves, and wine. They may be grown singly, although it will take three or four bushes to produce enough berries for a family of four.

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Growing Red Currant Bushes and White Currants

Because more exotic fruits are readily available in the shops and with the introduction of frozen fruits out of season, red currants and white currants are not nearly so widely grown and used as in former years.

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How to Plant a Currant Bush

Learn how to plant and care for a currant bush in your home garden with this general guide. 1. Getting Started, 2. Spring and Summer Maintenance, 3. Take Cuttings in the Fall, 4. Replant Your Cuttings.

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White currants - So stunning. Single ingredient. Nothing needed to add... Sheer magic all on their own. #loverealfood

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How to Grow New Currant Bushes For Free

Currants are the forgotten treasure of productive gardens. If you had to weigh up the amount of harvest against the effort, space and expense of many edible plants then I think currents would come near the top of the list. Black currant, red currant and white currant bushes all yield copious clusters of berries which are rich in vitamin C as well as having a high pectin content which makes them ideal for jams and jellies.

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White #currant, currents are a favorite of mine, they really are like little jewels

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Rose Currant Gloire De Sablon

You'll rarely find these unusual currants in shops. Yet their beautifully translucent pink colour, delicious sweet flavour and enchanting fragrance make them invaluable in puddings and pies, jams and jellies.

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Red Currant ‘Red Start’

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Sweet Success White currants! Can be grown in partial shade #garden.

Space isn’t an issue in my garden, but if I had to limit myself, I’d choose the ‘Primus’ currants first, because their flavor is exceptional and the shrub is good-looking, too.

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