{"id":8212,"date":"2010-08-02T00:21:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T07:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8212"},"modified":"2010-08-01T03:56:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T10:56:33","slug":"growing-white-currants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/growing-white-currants\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing White Currants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"white currant \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4834905178\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4085\/4834905178_f1566da581.jpg\" alt=\"white currant\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>White Currants are closely related to Red Currants and need similar, sunny or partially shaded treatment. They will reward the soft fruit grower with a nice crop of sweet juicy fruit for gardeners pies and summer puddings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a White Currant<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Ribes rubrum is the fruiting currant which can be red, yellow, pink or white.<\/li>\n<li> These currants are related to the Gooseberry<\/li>\n<li> White Currants make  a fairly strong, vigorous, upright bush. The plant in the photo has been trained in a &#8216;U&#8217; shape as a double cordon. This urn shape in a bush or cordon allows air to circulate and helps harvesting.<\/li>\n<li>White Versaillies has large light yellow and sweet fruit ready for harvesting early July. &#8216;White Grape&#8217; AGM  and &#8216;White Pearl&#8217; fruit in summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Growing White Currants<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Plant currants when they become dormant  towards the end of November or December.<\/li>\n<li> Propagate from ripe hardwood cuttings  10-12 inches long burried \u00c2\u00be of the way into the ground. New roots will strike from a number of areas along the stem.<\/li>\n<li> You can also layer currants in autumn or spring as they root quite freely.<\/li>\n<li> Prune\u00c2\u00a0 all young side shoots to 5 leaves in June. In Autumn or winter cut back long shoots by one third.<\/li>\n<li> Snip strings of fruit with scissors (then separate them from the stalk with a fork)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"white currant \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4834904422\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4133\/4834904422_e8ab3df35e.jpg\" alt=\"white currant\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Currants are closely related to Red Currants and need similar, sunny or partially shaded treatment. They will reward the soft fruit grower with a nice crop of sweet juicy fruit for gardeners pies and summer puddings. What is a White Currant Ribes rubrum is the fruiting currant which can be red, yellow, pink or white. These currants are related to the Gooseberry White Currants make a fairly strong, vigorous, upright bush. The plant in the photo has been trained&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/growing-white-currants\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}