Some berries and currants are expensive to buy or difficult to find in shops, so plant your own bushes now for punnets of sunripened 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.

I picked 12 quarts of red currants from three bushes this year, so your plants are underperforming. Your bushes are young still. Three or four feet tall is about as high as they get.

I love the musky fragrance of these plants, and the jelly the berries produce, though I can't say I'm fond of the tart-ish berries on their own. (Cassis, the liquor, is made from black currants, too.) ...

Berry plants are flavorful favorites in many kitchen gardens, but their ornamental value is often ignored. These versatile perennials bloom in spring, fruit in summer and dazzle again in autumn ...

David didn’t just treat the gorgeous fruit like misplaced jewelry; she used them to make jams, granitas and ice creams and summer bread pudding.

“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 ...

Discover 8 incredible health benefits of black currants. These vitamin C-rich berries boost immunity, fight inflammation, and support heart health.

Health supplements are made from the black currant plant using its:. Seed oil; Leaves; Fruit; Flowers; Black currant contains: Anthocyanidin, a type of pigment; Gamma-linolenic acid (), an omega-6 ...

Berry plants are flavorful favorites in many kitchen gardens, but their ornamental value is all but ignored. These versatile perennials bloom in spring, fruit in summer and dazzle again in autumn ...

It feels like a strange history that this fruit was banned in America. Few folks in the United States have ever tasted ... A 1929 law imposed fines of up to $25 on people who had currant plants.