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Offline mamapoppybee

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Black currants.
« on: January 12, 2015, 10:58:42 am »
So i am considering adding a plot of black currants to this homestead. Grew up on candies flavored with them and the beloved ribena.  After learning about some of there medicinal and vitamin properties am very excited to try this. This will be another experimental endeavor. Oh i hear they make great wine too!  Any one know more about there soil typing and growth habits?

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Re: Black currants.
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2015, 10:59:40 am »
No personal experience w/ them mamapoppybee, but I used to steal the red one's by the handful from the old german woman that lived across the street from where I grew up! She made the BEST Currant Jelly. I sure do miss Tante Emily!
Anyways, saw this link:

http://www.fruit.cornell.edu/mfruit/gooseberries.html

The fine folks at Cornell are well regarded in these parts (it's a good school), and their agricultural co-op is very active. Hope it proves useful! FWIW I've seen lots of all kinds of currants at one of the fruit farms in my town. Don't know how they tend to them, however. I didn't care for the taste of the black-one's off the bush, so we didn't pick any (it was late in the season as well).

- K