In this complete growing guide we are going to be talking all about the currant and gooseberry! They are almost the exact same just different fruit sizes. We will talk about fertilizing, sunlight, watering, soil conditions, soil pH, pruning, spacing, and so much more!
Currants and gooseberries are high in Vitamin C and very high in antioxidants that can fight off cancer and heart disease.
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Can you grow currants in pots?
Any idea on root depth? Wondering how deep to treat my soil aka NW Indiana clay.
So fertilize with nitrogen in the Spring and Phosphorus in the Fall.
To be honest, in the UK, the only wild berry plant that we have growing in any common occurrence is the blackberry. Not to say there aren't others, but you're not really going to find them unless you know where to look. Blackberry bramble is everywhere though.
In my experience if you let them grow you may end up with a 7 feet diameter bush that grows more fruits than leaves.
So, fair warning, in good conditions some will spread like they own your garden. Mainly the red ones.
These are really easy to propagate as well. Simply take a pot half fill it with soil….bend a branch down onto the soil……cover with a few more inches of soil and mulch …….wait a few weeks and cut the branch from the original plant. you are basically air layering directly into a pot with no rooting compound or work…. I often do this when pruning larger branches……Here in eastern Canada these plants go for $12 – $20 each. I have 3 plants that are 6-7 years old that I pull 8-10 additional plants from each year and sell at plant swaps or farmers markets.
I placed 2 white currant cuttings in a pot full of peat moss last year, which many people know is acidic. Not only have they survived the winter with hardly any roots and leaves, but this year they've filled the pot with roots. I haven't fertilised them once. They've started shooting out new stems and the pot has been bone dry for a few days straight and they haven't been severely affected by that. There's a very small amount of yellowing on some leaves but no wilting.
I would like to know how to grow them from seeds, i tried them too many times but never succeed
i dont know that they are that particular because my grandma and mother grow currants in alkaline, poorly draining, poorly fertilized, dirt in a climate where we can see high nineties even to 104 degrees F and they grow lots of berries that my mom makes jam out of up to like 1-3 gallons of it per 1 plant
I am living in Massachusetts. I have a gooseberry black currant and red currant. Prepare yourself when you get it to fight with a very badly disease It is powdery mildew
Hi, you are mentioned that you are keeping current in the pots until you find a right place to plant them in your garden. For how long you can keep them in the pot? Thank you
No wonder I have a forest floor covered in thousands and thousands of gooseberries, my soil pulls very hard neutral, and although I do have some clay, the forest soil is soft and nutritious. First green I see in spring are the gooseberries all over the forest and the red elderberries that are everywhere. Beautiful! Just getting my currants going and happy to see I'm on the right track with a semi shady part of the berry patch. They propagate very easy, take a cutting, shove it in the dirt.
I am such a dumbass! You may have solved my 5 year problem. I read on my acidic fertilizer bag to use it on Gooseberries. I have a wild and tall plant that will not produce fruit. I can see here it needs a new haircut and diet. Thank you, Luke! Fingers crossed for 2021.
Gooseberries (amla)stop gray hair!
He's just yapping and yapping!
They do well surrounded by tall grass also
Wow. I didn't know there were care requirements. We had red and black currants growing up in zone 5 that received no care for well over twenty years. They seemed to do just fine. We must have had them in the right soil and sun conditions.
Very good as ice cream toppings
In Michigan, you need a permit to grow these plants because they can carry a disease that kills white pines. Google it and send an email to the State of MI and they will give you the permit if you're approved. Only certain varieties are allowed by the State of Michigan.
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Think it will grow in Central Alabama??? What do they taste well you are describing it now thanks.
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How do you winterize them if you keep them in pots
Have you ever thought about selling cuttings in your store?
Your arguments kind of fall apart when you say they are extremely partixular about everything, especially as everyone in here contradict the statements. Also, nitrogen fertilizer..? I have to guess the stigning nettles thst grew beside them did thst job xobsideribg my 1 gooseberry bush gave me 12 liters (3.5 gal) of frukt this year. I did provide pine needles – for the funkar acitivity – and lots of egg shells and banana peels. But those arent nitrogen… also, 2.5-3 feet? More like meters.
I have about 10 of these growing in pots, can't wait till next spring when I plant them outside. Never tasted golden currants
Gooseberry
I bought 15 of these motherfuckers last week.I killed one years ago.I had to try again.