How to Grow Blackcurrants
Ensure that you have the appropriate growing climate., Choose a spot with full sun., Prepare the soil., Plant the blackcurrant., Harvest., Prune.
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Ensure that you have the appropriate growing climate.
Blackcurrants are very frost tolerant and need cold winters to grow their best. -
Step 2: Choose a spot with full sun.
They can grow with some shade but prefer full sun. , Blackcurrants feed well and need a nutritious soil.
Till the soil and add blood and bone or potash and nitrogen in the early spring.
The soil needs to be well-drained, light, and kept moist.
Blackcurrants are more forgiving on less nutritious soil than other berries but produce the best fruit when well fed. , Fruit is borne on the length of the previous year's spring growth, by sending up shoots from under the round yearly.
When planting, bury the blackcurrant stem about 5 centimeter (2.0 in) deeper than it was positioned in the container you purchased it in. , Don't pick the blackcurrants too soon.
Once ripened, leave the berries to hang on the bush a few extra days to improve the flavour.
When you see some of the upper level berries fall off unaided, the blackcurrants are ready for harvesting. , Each bush should carry around 6 to 10 shoots.
Remove the oldest canes post-harvest yearly.
This will stimulate the new growth.
Pruning off the oldest canes will renew the entire bush about every three years. -
Step 3: Prepare the soil.
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Step 4: Plant the blackcurrant.
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Step 5: Harvest.
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Step 6: Prune.
Detailed Guide
Blackcurrants are very frost tolerant and need cold winters to grow their best.
They can grow with some shade but prefer full sun. , Blackcurrants feed well and need a nutritious soil.
Till the soil and add blood and bone or potash and nitrogen in the early spring.
The soil needs to be well-drained, light, and kept moist.
Blackcurrants are more forgiving on less nutritious soil than other berries but produce the best fruit when well fed. , Fruit is borne on the length of the previous year's spring growth, by sending up shoots from under the round yearly.
When planting, bury the blackcurrant stem about 5 centimeter (2.0 in) deeper than it was positioned in the container you purchased it in. , Don't pick the blackcurrants too soon.
Once ripened, leave the berries to hang on the bush a few extra days to improve the flavour.
When you see some of the upper level berries fall off unaided, the blackcurrants are ready for harvesting. , Each bush should carry around 6 to 10 shoots.
Remove the oldest canes post-harvest yearly.
This will stimulate the new growth.
Pruning off the oldest canes will renew the entire bush about every three years.
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