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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Drew Swainston

How to grow currants – these healthy and easy-to-grow fruits thrive in cooler climates and are perfect for jams, jellies, and baking

Dark ripe blackcurrants hanging off a bush.

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 prune, and reliable croppers. To help you learn how to grow currants, I reveal tips I’ve learnt over the years and also spoke to a fruit expert about these fantastic soft fruit bushes.

Banned in the United States for many years until recently, blackcurrants, redcurrants, and whitecurrants are soft fruit bushes that produce prolific harvests of small fruits packed with vitamin C and with a range of uses.

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