Rovada Redcurrant Plants

Rovada Redcurrant Plants

Rovada redcurrants are simply the best redcurrant variety available today, an almost perfect redcurrant bush with an RHS Award of Garden Merit. The berries are carried in long strings to make picking easy, yields are enormous (up to 10kgs per bush) and the redcurrants themselves are outstandingly tasty. Unmistakably redcurrant. Rovada redcurrant bushes crop late, from mid July and well into August.
If you can only have one redcurrant plant, pick this one!.

Browse our other currant bushes, flowering currant for hedges, or all Soft Fruit Bushes.

All redcurrants like a bit of room to breathe. Rovada should be grown at 140cm spacing in the row and with 150cm between the rows.

Rovada is a heavy cropper for the space it takes, and a bush grown against a wall or fence is easy to net against birds. For a longer redcurrant season, grow it alongside Jonkheer Van Tet, the earliest of our redcurrants: between them they crop from early summer into August.

How to prune mature Redcurrants:

Two and three year old wood is the most productive. Prune out entire stems down to their base after their third year, in winter.
Prune the side shoots on two year old stems down to just above two buds up from the stem, in winter. This prepares them for the best crop in their third and final year.
Don't prune new stems, unless it's sagging low towards the ground, or if it's weak or damaged.