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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

I have trouble sometimes telling my gooseberry and currant shrubs apart ... This bramble berry grows on shrub-like plants, and forms small raspberry-looking fruit in clusters.

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 ...

Its ban stayed in effect for a long time. A 1929 law imposed fines of up to $25 on people who had currant plants. Can you imagine just having a berry bush? This prohibition was lifted only in 1988.

What: The native flowering currant, or ribes sanguineum ... If a branch strays too much out of bounds it can be removed. Plants will often sucker to form a small patch.