It's amazing to see how Huw's confidence has grown, along with his garden!

Just bought my first currants to plant yesterday. Been busy preparing the ground for their arrival. Thanks for the information, greatly appreciated

I have needed your expertise for many years. Thank You for posting this video.

This is exactly what I will be referencing, this coming autumn, now that my blackcurrant is just over 3 years old. Thank you for this.

We love watching your videos Huw! Thank you for teaching us gardening, blessings to you

Adding 2 plants to my backyard Urban Permaculture landscape today. Great work.

Thank you, very clear instructions.

I see you've evolved and grown in the past 5 years, thank you for the info :)

Awesome video thank you

My 3rd year growing blackcurrants so your video very helpful, thanks

Great information!! Thanks, now i can try it myself

Very useful, thank you!

Great show! Thank you! Cheers!

Thx that was really useful and saved our blackcurrent bush

Great video, got all the info I needed, thanks

Thanks for all you do, you break down the description of what you are talking about in your videos so that even I can understand. Many who do videos skip common steps that matter, but if you don't know really make a difference in the outcome. I only have 4 currants, 2 black, 2 red, but with your help I plan to have many, many more...

Just getting started but this was a good video. Had one bush with a few berries this year. Hope next year is better. Thanks for the tips.

really helpful - thanks very much

very helpful thank you

Going to pick up a couple of plants tomorrow. This was very useful information, thanks.

Thanks for that. Got the idea now.

Great vid, thanks so much. This is gonna help massively as I have 5 B currants and a Red currant bush on the go :)

Very clear. Thanks!

thanks for shareing

Awesome update i got no blackcurrant bush but nice to know how to do it

I have looked at three videos before this and couldn't understand some of the jargon...this video works for people new to fruit growing. Well done.

Great info. We have inherited 3 blackcurrant and 3 redcurrants with our allotment. Had a great crop from them and now know how to prune them. They are very congested.

Thank you very useful

Thankyou .xx

Thank you, that was very helpful

Useful and clear instructions- thank you

Very informative. I will try this on my young current bushes.

this video was very helpful, thank you :)

Very informative, thanks!

Extremely helpful, Huw. Thanks. Got anything on gooseberries, or haven't I looked properly?

Very Helpful Thanks

Would like a vid showing: how to care for a Goji Berry bush.

Thank you for the advice. I have inherited four Blackcurrant bushes on the Allotment I have taken on. The bushes are very overgrown and don't look as if they have ever been pruned, I took out a lot of old growth in the winter, with more old growth still on the bushes( I wanted to have some fruit ) What I would like to know is would it do the bushes any harm if I took some Hight off of them as they are tall and quite lax in their growth.

Thanks again for your video.It's early January and my fruit bushes are growing new shoots already. Can I still prune them? Last year I got lots of fruit from bushes I bought for £1 each the year before.( Gooseberries, Redcurrants and Blackcurrants) xx

Nice video. Very informative! QUESTION: I have a white currant. Do I prune that the same way as you do the Black?

Great info, thanks - will subscribe!

Thanks! I have a uestion. It's August, my garden is getting a big makeover (long story) and we had to replant soms two years old rasberrybushes. It's hot a dry so they are drooping. Should I prune them now or leave them alone? I am watering everyday and we fed them dried cow manure.

one book I have suggests that if you prune in summer, that is when the plant has more of a chance at curing the wound because it is not dormant so summer prunning might not be such a bad idea. Of course a vine bleeds like hell if you cut it in late winter, but not so later on, maybe it is like a maple, it takes up a lot of water on cold nights and then the sun, on sunny winter days, possible stronger where there is a continental climate and so less cloud, makes the pressure in the tree build up like crazy and the sap, the unelaborated sap, just dashes everywhich way. Look up sap flow in sugar maples if you want to see an account of this. . Also, the same book o pruninning said that if you cut in winter when the sap is down then there is not enough tree or bush for all the stored goodness and it will produce a lot of suckers in spring, maybe good in this case.

Much better pruning than I have done. I never get it right.

So you take your cutting in the fall/autumn when the leaves have fallen off? Nice video by the way, Thanks you. My other questions. I wouldn't ask but I only have one bush of the variety I like. Usually I plant two or more of a variety. I've forgotten the name of it but I'd like more. Also do Currants do well in hedgerows? 1. When to take cuttings? I'm in the U.S. but many videos are from friends in the U.K. 2. any particular place to take the cuttings from the bush? 3. Can long branches be cut to plant? Do the cuttings all have to come from the tips of the bush? 4. Will taking cuttings in the fall be okay or must they be taken in the spring? 5. How much of the production of the bush be lost when taking cuttings in the spring? 6. i had planned to take cuttings now in the fall and cover with a cloche. Will that work?

Nice video Huw. There is an easier way if you have more than three bushes. This advice I picked up years ago from HDRA now Grow Organic. Divide your bushes into three sections, cut down the first section the first year to just above ground level. Then section two after the second year and then the third section after the third year. In the fourth year you start the cycle again. You do lose fruit production the year following but the bushes make up for it the following years. I have been doing this now for a number of years and has been no problems. Pete

I grow 2 blackcurrant plants of the variety 'Jonkheer van tets'. I have read somewhere that if a branch comes into contact with soil for a while, then roots can come out of the branch and a new clone plant can grow. Does this method actually work? and also, at what age do Blackcurrants produce fruit?

I have been once told that you can prune a bush for an easy harvest e.g. if my currants are all ready and I prune out the older wood, I can then take the currants off the pruned bits. What do you say?

I have a serious question, for my getting my bachelor degree we are studying vineyard prunings wastes and the possiblity of using these as an alternative energy source for fossil fuels or the collection and antioxidants, phenols etc.. No my question is what normally happens to these wastes? I've read they are sometimes left in the field as fertiliser or burned? I also guess you can collect them and bring them to a colletion point where they are later incinerated? Thanks in advance and sorry for bad english

Thank you. Useful :)

Are these the currants you did the cuttings for a couple of years ago? Good video. Dave

very easy to propagate -- use the rimmings - they root easily

Ive just bought a red currant bush, it's not dormant (just coming back to life) I gather I'm too late to prune this year xx Kat xx

Is it the same pruning for Red currants?

My blackcurrant and red currants are only 2 years planted they grew fruit the first year but did no fruit last year what should I be doing, I did prune them last year following your video.

good filming but you need a wide shot at the end to see what the pruned bush should look like. Are the remaining stems long?

When I moved allotments I pruned black current on old plot and used prunings as hardwood cuttings for new site

How much of the height can I cut back as the have gone mad this year

Do you cut them down all the way and let them re-grow next year? If so why not do it in the spring like raspberries?

Hi huw Have moved into a house whos fruit garden hasent had been prumed back in years With 6 black current plants All have thick stems , should i cut them all back to the base and let them regrow Thanks in advance

Love your videos. I have never in my 52 years eaten a current. Are they good? I wonder if they will grow in Texas

I've got blackcurrants, I prune them with a scythe!

I got a fairly new blackcurrant bush, been feeding with tomato feed and not pruned yet cos all looks new bendy growth..it's in a large pot. Only had 12 blackcurrants first 2 years though - is this normal or have I don't something wrong? Used to have a blueberry bush, was wonderful and wish hadn't rehomed it now...

Hi Huws, does this method also apply to Gooseberry?

Ah! Found it!

what was that thing that fell off the bush at about 3.06 ? Dead bird?

what? use a scimitar?

Can you take the sticks to grow other plants?

Hi, Just watched your video which was very helpful, however I suggest that you look at the subtitles which appear on your videos - they are NOT what you are saying. They could be confusing and ill mannered in some cases.

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