We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Do you have a small, green bush in your yard that produces red, black, yellow-ish, or pink berries? Then that may be a currant bush, known by ...
I have grown, maintained, and harvested blackcurrant, redcurrant, and whitecurrant bushes in walled kitchen gardens and on my home plots for many years. I always found them simple to grow, easy to ...
Bare-root fruit starts becoming available for gardeners to plant in November. These dormant plants offer a more budget-friendly way to add fruit to your garden than buying pricier container-grown ones ...
Black currant fruits are "of a stinking and somewhat loathing savour, the leaves also are not without the stinking smell," wrote herbalist John Gerard in his famous "Herball" more than 350 years ago.
Winter is a great time to uncover the latent potential in your garden. While many flowering and fruiting plants are taking their seasonal rest, it's not only an ideal time to plan spring growth but to ...
April was National Native Plant Month, also recognized as New Mexico Native Plant Month. Currant bushes, buffaloberry, willows and New Mexico olives have been flowering, attracting early pollinators.
We disagree, at our house, about whether we planted our currant bush last year or the year before. I'm the one who thinks we planted it last year, because I clearly remember being surprised that it ...