Currants are easily propagated by hardwood cuttings of one-year old wood. Take one-foot cuttings of dormant wood in late winter, dip the base in rooting hormone and pot in ordinary soil.
Gooseberries, red and white currants can be grown either as bushes, or as upright cordons, which take up less space and can be planted closer together for a mixture of different varieties in a small garden.
Currants and Gooseberries
Ribe spp.
Currants and Gooseberries are attractive shrubs known for their tasty, colorful fruit that can be eaten fresh off the plant or harvested for making jams, jellies and pies.
About This Plant ...
74. Currants & Gooseberries / Ribes spp.
leaf
resemble small Maple leaves.
some species have hairy petioles.
buds ...
Ribes - Currants and Gooseberries
Ribes alpestris - Hedge Gooseberry
Ribes alpinum - Alpine Currant
Ribes aureum - Golden Currant
Ribes cynosbati - Prickly Gooseberry
Ribes grossularioides - Japanese Gooseberry ...
currants, fruit, goosberries, Ribes
Growing Fruit On The Patio And Small Garden
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Red currants-Long stems of little red fruits are popular in baked goods.
Black currants-Larger, dark fruits are good as juice or in pastries.
Gooseberries-Round, with a smooth or bristly skin.
ERICACEAE-The Heath family ...
Blue-black currants of Ribes sanguineum 'White Icicle'
are shown in September at the end of their long summer presence.
This species is considered mainly an ornamental shrub because
the flowers are so numerous & gorgeous, but the fruits are ...
Genus Ribes, Currants and Gooseberries
Taxonomic Serial Number: 24493
Also known as Ribes cognatum, Ribes hendersonii, Ribes irriguum, Ribes setosum
Five subspecies recognized: ssp. cognatum (Umatilla Gooseberry), ssp.
See how blackcurrants can be grown at home and maintain high yields of fruit for up to fifteen years.
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Gooseberries and Currants. These berries will not tolerate our hot Texas summers and are seldom fruited here.
This is considered one of the best white flowering currants, bearing long-lasting, pendent racemes of pungently spicy, pure-white blooms.
The redcurrants consumed before meals are tonic (appetizer) and if consumed after eating they are help the digestive process, being very useful in gastric disorders or insufficiencies. They are also used as laxatives but also as re-mineralizators.
The gooseberries and currants have regular, bisexual flowers, usually about 1/4inch in diameter. The blossoms are yellow, white, greenish or sometimes red. The flowers have 5 united sepals and 5 separate petals (rarely 4 of each).
The fruits of golden currants are edible and quite well-tasting. Indian tribes as well as by European settlers used golden currant fruit fresh and dried, and mixed it with other berries, fat and meat to make pemmican.
Various authors have likened their flavor to bilberries, currants, or blueberries. I find that they look and taste like small agreeably tart huckleberries.
Grenadine syrup, sometimes made from red currants, is a flavoring for wines, cocktails, carbonated beverages, preserves, and confectionery.
For currants and raisins, both produced by varieties of the grape-vine, see the respective articles.
The names "Currant" and "Gooseberry" are used interchangeably for various members of the Ribes genus, but no distinguishing characteristics help separate Currants from Gooseberries; what one person calls a Currant, another calls a Gooseberry.
The difference between a currant and gooseberry is that the latter will goose you with its prickles, while the currants are disarmed. Yet Ribes lacustre's many common names include both. Nevertheless, this has lots of prickles along its stems.
Fence or wall grown fruit will include blackberries, loganberries, trained tree fruit, or even Redcurrants (But not black currants.) Hanging baskets are suited to many varieties of tomato plants.
If for white currants, use lump sugar. It is best to put the fruit, etc., into a large pan, and when, in three or four days, the scum rises, take that off before the liquor be put into the barrel.
The fruit contains up to 5 times the vitamin C content of blackcurrants[74]. Highly esteemed according to one report[151] whilst another says that they are insipid[11].
2m (4ft) tall and has in-bred frost resistance and some mildew resistance. In mid-July a heavy crop of large blackcurrants are produced which are perfect for serving fresh or made into jams, jellies or pies.
BBC Essential tasks in January Topics are: Roses, containers, cutting back, greenhouse, Hippeastrum, peaches, Gutters and butts, digging, Apple trees, bean trench, New fruit, currants, seed potatoes, bulb care and move shrubs ...
of snowdrops under trees, along hedges and fences, and in eight raised beds on his five-acre property. (He also grows thousands of other bulbs, including tulips and crocuses, as well as a wide variety of fruit-everything from figs and currants to ...
The chances are that the owners of trees will get little fruit mainly because it is out of reach. If the birds do not first get the fruit of the dwarf varieties it may be gathered, mixed with currants or raspberries and eaten as a dessert or canned.
In riparian areas one finds red osier dogwood, woods rose, various species of willow, black cottonwood, narrowleaf cottonwood, black hawthorn, some species of currants, and occasionally american licorice-root, hemp dogbane.
 See also: Currant, May, Green, Fruits, Ribes
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