Forbidden fruits: Berries, banned? That’s right. In the USA currants were banned from being grown or sold for many years. This ban has since been lifted, and while UK and European gardeners are familiar with this fruit in their gardens, many Americans are yet to discover the wonders of currants.
In this week’s episode, Ben reveals the reason why these delicious nutritious fruits were off limits and why they’re now (mostly) back on the menu in the States, while demonstrating how to grow these treasures from planting to harvest.
Get ready for the new currant trend! ❤️💙
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They unbanned currants? I've always wanted to make a currant mead so this great!
Had a bush in Boston.
Thanks for the interesting video! It's important to keep up with currant affairs.
Blackcurrant is my favorite flavor. Back in 2007 I filled my wine cellar with lots of blackcurrant-forward wines and designed our dinners around pairing with them. Just lovely. I don't know if we have the proper terroir to grow them here in Georgia, but I would love to if it would yield exceptional fruit.
Do check with your state regulations though people
I have one next to my apartment.
I grow white, pink, and red currants. The legal hoops you have to jump through to grow black currants are still pretty extreme in NJ. I had to get permission from the NJDA before I could buy the others.
They are legal in California just checked
Tell you what, unless you know what you are looking at, don't listen to this idiot because there are berry producing plants that look like black currents that will kill you if you eat them
LOL, I Have Like 6 Bushes Of These In My Garden And Like 20 Other Berrie Bushes
You mean the USA right ?
i got only one black currant bush and god ohh god, i still have jars of jam since last year season and obviously half a dozen jars from this year…. amazing plant and fruits….
I never knew that Currants were band. My grandparents had a garden full back in the 50s through the 70s before they moved.
Blackcurrant juice is so good
Didn't know these were banned here in the US. On a different note the best pie I ever had was in London it was a strawberry currant pie.
thanks for giving me the current information on currants.
Even if they are banned, it does not mean that you cannot grow them. Government says a lot of things, nobody knows all the things which they said are legal or illegal as they come with countless nonsense on a daily basis. What is important is what they do. When they start coming to your yard looking for those plants, only then it is illegal to grow them.
As for currants, we had red and black variety. Never liked them. We had gooseberry next to them, it was a better berry.
Currents in america at last! Wish I had a garden to grow these.
Love your berries they are very beautiful.
Add to porridge umm.
Can I be cheeky and ask you is it the time to repot a blackcurrant tree from a small pot to a bigger one or do I need to wait till spring. Cheers
The FEDERAL ban was removed in the 1960's. Unfortunately more than 50 years later, in spite of all the proof that currents are not a threat to pine forestry, there are many places in the USA that have never reversed this ban, or that allow red currents but not black currents, or only allow "white pine blister resistant cultivars", and some places make you register and report what you are growing. There are counties and towns that prohibit them next to counties and towns that don't, in the same state. The legality of growing currents is all over the map, literally. Politicians and bureaucrats are constantly inventing new laws to justify their budgets, many of said laws are just plain stupid, and hardly ever will government autocrats admit that they made a mistake and reverse the law.
I love black currants. Unfortunately our grocery stores (Netherlands) don't sell them, so I grow them myself. I now have a white variety of black currant called 'Ojeblanc', which has light green fruits. It is not a white currant (Ribes rubrum), but really a white version of the blach currant (Ribes nigrum). The taste is a bit lighter, somewhat less aromatic, but more refreshing.
5:17 you forgot to break apart the roots so the plant isn’t root bound
Hello sir, I live in Texas and bought a dormant white currant stem (about 3 feet tall) last year and planted it in a pot. Through the whole growing season this last year I was only able to get about 10 leaves to grow and not much else. Any recommendations on promoting better growth this year? Thanks!
Found this really helpful as I put in blackcurrant and redcurrant a couple of years ago.
Thankfully seem to have put them in a good position, but wondering if any gardeners have come across netting which is cotton or natural material rather than plastic based. My mum had some such netting on her allotment, but I have no idea where she got it from, and need much more to keep the hungry birds off our prized 'jewel' fruit. Any ideas?
Growing up in Michigan, I loved the red currants on the farm. I'm curious how they would hold up to the New Mexico heat where I live now.
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Hi. I have one red currant bush and I struggle with knowing how to prune it correctly. I know it should be opened (like a wine glass shape) but I don't feel I know how to identify which branches, stems to prune. Any tips please? Also is it possible to train a bush gooseberry into a corden and likewise the red currant. Thanks