This week, Central New York gardening writer Carol T. Bradford responds to a reader question. Dear Carol: I have a question about jostaberries. I've two bushes that are up pretty good. Nice and green ...

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 ...

The gardens of Anchorage are lonely -- and not just because of the lousy weather. Most of the gardeners I know are out berry picking. Where? Surely you jest. No serious berry-picker will tell you ...

For gardeners in cool climates, the idea of a thriving, fruit-filled orchard often clashes with the harsh reality of a short growing season and chilly, biting winds. Temperatures drop below freezing, ...

Home landscapes aren’t just something pretty to look at these days. Many gardeners are planting fruit and berry bushes as well as vegetables among the petunias, roses and perennials. Two noteworthy ...

After dinner one night this summer, I served currants as a garnish on dessert. The pink, round, little fruits from a newly planted bush rolled off the cake slices like BBs out of a gun—quite a few of ...

Currants, the tiny red, white or black berries related to gooseberries, star in the famous French preserves called Bar-le-Duc, named for the city in which they’re made. Specially trained women (called ...

Berries are one of the major delights of summer and some of the easiest plants to grow. With the exception of the raspberries, whose canes are most easily grown in rows -- and even then look more like ...

While black currant (Ribes nigrum L.) production is prevalent in Europe and New Zealand, it has been slow to take off in North America. However, with increasingly resistant cultivars, a recent ...