Quick Tips
- Plant new bare rooted blackcurrants 2-5 inches lower than they were grown in the nursery to encourage branching from the bottom. This helps to create a strong shrub.
- Best fruit yields are obtained from wood grown in the previous year so one third of the older wood can be pruned out to an inch from the ground each year.
- Older black coloured branches will bear fruit, but quantity and quality decline with age.
- Combine pruning with picking the fruit by cutting the branch prior to harvesting. Alternatively wait until winter to prune.
- Buy disease free plants and watch out for big rounded buds harboring gall mites. Pick off and burn infected buds and if badly infested destroy the plant.
- You can get a yield of up to 8 pounds from a strong bush. Net bushes if birds are a problem
- Favourite include varieties Ben Lomond, Titania and Ben Hope.
- Planting should be completed by the end of March. Discourage fruiting in the first year to build up strength.
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