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Whether you choose to grow blackcurrant bushes, a red currant variety, or whitecurrants, you’ll find the experience easy and rewarding.
The number of berries you get will depend on your currant bush's age, variety and environmental conditions. Mature bushes can produce between 1 to 4 kilograms of berries per crop.
It’s best to prune fruiting currant bushes in winter before any new growth appears. Remember that black currants will fruit best on one-year-old wood while redcurrants and whitecurrants will fruit on any wood that is not new or current season.
Therefore, you should prune out wood older than 2 years on blackcurrants but only prune out the really old and dead wood from redcurrants and whitecurrants. Opening up the bushes a little will ensure good disease resistance and produce lots of luscious berries for your home-baked goods.
Currant bushes are quite substantial and can grow to a height and width of around 90 cm to 180 cm. Therefore, you should space them at least 1 metre apart if you’re growing a row of different varieties.
All of our currant varieties are self-fruiting, so you can grow just one or a multitude of them in your garden.
For most currant varieties, it takes around 1 to 3 years for them to bear fruit. Newly planted bushes should produce quite vigorous growth in their first year. It is on this growth that the plants will produce their large berries the following year. You will also find that you will get a heavy crop in the third year on wood that grew in the previous season.
As currants are bushes and not canes, they do not require a trellis or fence to grow along. Follow the instructions when planting your currant bush to ensure optimal growing conditions.