Blackcurrants are one of those easy-to-care-for plants that really should get more praise. They can be grown in containers or directly planted into the ground. The only tricky thing about caring for them is knowing when to prune blackcurrants to ensure a bumper harvest from even a small vegetable garden each summer.
Unlike red and white currants, blackcurrants fruit best on young, strong stems, so when pruning you are cutting back the older stems to encourage new ones to sprout from the base. This is why it is ultra important to know when to prune blackcurrants, as well as how, otherwise you could jeopardise next year's crop.
