Search...
Home Subscribe
Pie
Home Subscribe
Recent topics Flagged topics Hot topics Best topics
Search...
Search within plants Search permies
Advance search Google search
Register / Login
free rmh plans
  • Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
GMC website permaculture bootcamp woman working on barrel Full online Permaculture Design course and Appropriate Technology Course video permaculture chockens Build your own rocket oven!
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • John F Dean
  • Timothy Norton
  • Nancy Reading
  • r ranson
  • Jay Angler
  • Pearl Sutton
stewards:
  • paul wheaton
  • Tereza Okava
  • AndrĂ©s Bernal
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
gardeners:
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • M Ljin
  • Matt McSpadden

Black Currants - productive even in the woods

 
Sean Dembrosky
pollinator
Posts: 88
Location: Trumansburg, NY
38
I like...
hugelkultur forest garden fungi trees chicken food preservation
posted 8 years ago
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Working on a harvest the other day and made a quick video showing just how productive black currants are for us, even in the woodland context.  Thought I'd get other folks excited to try growing them in partial shade to see how much food and medicine you can get with just a few hours of direct sunlight a day and pretty massive deer pressure.   (Lots!)

Permaculture nursery - http://www.edibleacres.org
Permaculture Youtube - http://youtube.com/user/edibleacres

 
David Livingston
pollinator
Posts: 4328
Location: Anjou ,France
262
posted 8 years ago
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Well done I am a big big blackcurrent fan . Its so easy to grow and multiply until you have more than enough at ZERO cost plus its got so much vitamin C etc etc taste I cannot understand not growing it . I made 27 jars of jam this week and I doubt that will last me a year ( mainly as the GF likes it so much too ) . I am planning on raising another twenty plants this year . Great in cordials, crumbles with apple , tarts a must in my book

Living in Anjou , France,
For the many not for the few
http://www.permies.com/t/80/31583/projects/Permie-Pennies-France#330873

 
Todd Parr
pollinator
Posts: 1793
Location: Wisconsin, zone 4
97
posted 8 years ago
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I haven't planted currants because I'm worried about white pine rust.  Is that a real concern, or not?

"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

 
Dale Hodgins
Posts: 9002
Location: Victoria British Columbia-Canada
708
posted 8 years ago
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
The Pine rust is a real concern. When I was a kid we had half dead pines around our garden. Turns out they had contracted something from are black currants.

I had a good feed of black currants yesterday, from an area that gets slightly more sun than the one in the video.

A single plant becomes a clump, becomes a patch. It can be sped up with some transplanting. Then you do nothing. You don't prune them, you don't water them, you don't worry about them. Just pick.
 
Mike Haasl
steward
Posts: 15822
Location: Northern WI (zone 4)
5010
8
I like...
hunting trees books food preservation solar woodworking
posted 8 years ago
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I planted red and black currents and I do have white pines around.  I picked varieties that are resistant to WPBR.  Here's the place I got mine (HoneyBerryUSA).  Their descriptions mention WPBR resistance and since they're from North of me I figured the plants would be hardy enough..

SKIP books, get 'em while they're hot!!! Skills to Inherit Property
See me in a movie building a massive wood staircase:Low Tech Lab Movie

 
Mike Haasl
steward
Posts: 15822
Location: Northern WI (zone 4)
5010
8
I like...
hunting trees books food preservation solar woodworking
posted 8 years ago
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
And here's a better resource I just found for WPBR.  It's a form you fill out for the state of Michigan if you want to plant a currant or gooseberry with a list of approved cultivars.  Unfortunately the currants I planted are not on that list:(

Michigan Ribes Permission Slip

SKIP books, get 'em while they're hot!!! Skills to Inherit Property
See me in a movie building a massive wood staircase:Low Tech Lab Movie

 
David Livingston
pollinator
Posts: 4328
Location: Anjou ,France
262
posted 8 years ago
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Actually Dale I do some work on mine .....every four years I cut them back

Living in Anjou , France,
For the many not for the few
http://www.permies.com/t/80/31583/projects/Permie-Pennies-France#330873

 
Why am I so drawn to cherry pie? I can't seem to stop. Save me tiny ad!
Permaculture Playing Cards Poster now available!
https://permies.com/t/177901/Permaculture-Playing-Cards-Poster
reply
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
Boost this thread!
Similar Threads
More...