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    Focus on…Blackcurrants

    Jan 05, 2021 4 minutes

    THERE is no fruit to match the intensity of flavour of a blackcurrant. The whole bush is literally bursting with fragrance – you can release the distinct aroma just by brushing past a plant. Robust, trouble-free and prolific, the bushes are also incredibly simple to grow; there’s not much going against them!

    Happy in sun or shade one bush is all that’s needed, because plants are self-fertile. If you have room, the vigorous and lofty ‘Ben Hope’ is very abundant and worthwhile growing. For those with tiny plots, compact ‘Ben Sarek’ is for you, and it grows happily in a pot as well.

    Blackcurrants crop best on vigorous two- and three-year-old wood,

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