The purple-almost-black fruit is shiny and about the size of a marble. Plant jostaberries alongside their cousins currants and gooseberries. These unique and rare berry types all thrive in cool ...

You want to take as much as ⅓ of the plant's stems, so you encourage new growth each year. This is the case for all your ...

First, the berries are not grapes. Second, they don't grow on vines, but rather on shrubs. Currants are beautiful and versatile plants for the kitchen garden. The berries are intensely and ...

Some berries and currants are expensive to buy or difficult to find in shops, so plant your own bushes now for punnets of sun-ripened fruit that will be ready for picking in a few months' time.

Plant a currant bush and you'll soon be picking lots of plump berries. White, red and blackcurrants are perfect for a sunny or slightly shaded spot, and once established are really easy to look after.

The black berries (like those of red currants) form on "strings" that are easy to pick once ripe. I love the musky fragrance of these plants, and the jelly the berries produce, though I can't say ...

One black currant yielded about a dozen berries ... but seem relatively unaffected by late frosts compared to tree fruit. The plants are heavy nitrogen feeders. Now that the harvest -- or the ...

David didn’t just treat the gorgeous fruit like misplaced jewelry ... from an entirely separate family of plants, and are related to gooseberries. Black currants, too tart to eat fresh, are ...

This makes it hard to set a standard dose. You can eat the berry of the black currant plant. The berry is also used as a flavoring in liqueurs and other products. The juice, leaves, and flowers of ...

“That’s when a little bulb went off,” says Quinn, who remembered the beautiful black currant plants that grew behind a restaurant where he once worked in Bavaria, Germany. He was intent on cultivating ...