How to Grow Blackcurrant: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

Ribes nigrum

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• Planting Blackcurrants: Why the Bush Goes In Deeper Than It Grew in the Pot
• Pruning Blackcurrants: Take Out a Third of the Oldest Stems Every Winter
• Blackcurrant Care: Feeding, Watering and Mulching the Hungriest of the Soft Fruits
• The Blackcurrant Year: Season by Season From Bud Burst to Winter Pruning
• Blackcurrant Problems: Big Bud Mite, Reversion, Mildew and Sawfly
• Picking Blackcurrants: When They Are Ripe and Why You Pick the Whole Strig

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (14)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.