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How to Grow Blackcurrants
How to Grow Blackcurrants is a step by step guide to show you how easy it is to grow your own blackcurrants so you can enjoy these tangy little berries in desserts and jam
Equipment
- Spade
- Watering can
Ingredients
- 2 blackcurrant bushes bare root
- 1/2 litre compost
- 3 litre water
Instructions
- Plant bushes 1.5 metres apart in all directions.
- Dig a hole wide enough to accommodate all the roots without bending them.
- Plant the bush slightly deeper than they were in the nursery (you will see the mark on the stem).
- Fill in around the bush with good soil mixed with a little compost.
- Firm the soil with the heel of your boot.
Notes
To grow blackcurrants in a container:
- Repot your container-grown blackcurrant bush in a slightly larger pot every two or three years.
- Repot when the plant is dormant in late winter.
- Take the plant from the pot and trim back some of the roots and replace the soil.
- Feed your container-grown plant with a liquid feed in the summer
- In the Autumn (fall) surround the base of the plant with fresh compost or a general-purpose granular fertiliser.