HUGE Harvest Of Red Currants
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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Tony took you through how to prune for huge harvests. Does this qualify for huge?
This fruit garden which is part of Tony's allotment plot is set up to provide the family with nearly all the fruit they require for the year. It has been designed to help him become more self-sufficient as he is on his vegetables.
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WOW, what a fantastic amount of red currants. Well done, and thank you for all your videos. I find them all very interesting.
Thanks, Christine. I am glad they are of interest to you. It's nice that you're commenting too as I love reading folks comments, I like to engage with people. How long have you been viewing?
You get a lot for your money with redcurrants. More so than with blackcurrants, at least up north.
😲 That’s absolutely awesome! I have four Redcurrant bushes; one from 2019 (the biggest); two from 2020 and one from 2022. I love making Redcurrant Jelly and crumbles and pies with them! Absolutely amazing! 😋
I grow black currants in Indiana, USA. Most Americans don't know currants, but I have an English mother, so I've always known them. Easy to grow. High nutritional value. With some late frosts this year, they have recovered. I use to make jelly or jam, or keep frozen for bread making, or put on cereal or in yogurt. For the space they take in the garden, it's well worth it to grow currants. I got mine from Indiana Berry Co., in Plymouth, IN.
Yeah I have black red and white :)
What variety of Red Currant plant did you buy from Indiana Berry Nursery? How big are th ed berries on the red currant plant you have? Thanks in advance!!
I never missed one video of yours,the food you made for your family looks very delicious and healthy,you are blessed to have an extraordinary talent,thanks for sharing your life with us
Thank you for the harvest processing advice. This will be my first year with some quantity to handle.
This is so neat!!
Lovely update Tony thank you for sharing have a blessed day
Thanks, Linda. hows your day going?
Thanks for the tips, just planted a few bushes. Never seen gooseberry or currents in the usa so im super excited... Thanks again from Seattle Washington, USA.
Amazing crop there Tony. It is HUGE!!!!! Good tip using the fork. Top of the Crops. Nice one mate 👍🏻
Cheers Nigel. Yes a good crop and worth the efforts over the next few years the fruit garden will get better and better
I seen a tree today that was a red currant round 25 feet tall 20 feet wide. I grabbed as many berries as I could so I can grow that again. I know you want to eat your food, but if you grew some of those again you would have a Lotta money.😊
Oh wow!
I grow the red and black ones in Nebraska. One whole side of my house is nothing but alternating black and red current bushes. I do trim the tops to make them all even so it looks nice. But they produce a lot of berries.
Wow! I'm growing red and black currants here in Chicago, I've learned loads from your video TY!!
Thats great Stephan how it helps you get a good crop
Have had a great year for currants this year here in Oregon as well. You are absolutely right, after the soil by far the most important aspect for high yields is proper pruning! Cheers!
Glad to hear you had a great crop too. What currants do you grow?
UK Here We Grow we grow everything! I have a couple red varieties (including Jonkers von Test), one white/yellow variety (White Imperial), three known varieties of black currant and many unknown family ones, a few gooseberries, and a jostaberry! I am originally from Russia so love Ribes! Cheers!
Hello Tony. I just purchased unplanned one red and one black currant I’ve memories from my young childhood of bushes in my Nans house in Pembrokeshire always thought they were pretty. What an amazing crop I’ll now go and check for other videos on growing them.
Awesome and they are great to have
Great video thanks for sharing your knowledge. And your daughter is precious😊! I planted my tree in soil and keep it in the window. Each time three leaves grow and look great but then they wither and fall off and then three more grow and wither again. This has happened three times now. Do you have any idea what is wrong?
That is one fantastic harvest.
Thanks. starting to fill the freezer now :)
What variety of red currant is that? Those berries are huge!! Please do tell. I'm about to buy some red currant bushes for Spring 2021; I want to buy the same variety of redcurrant like the ones you have.
im not sure I inherited the bushes
Wow good harvest. I'm gonna have to study your videos and try and get big harvests next year.
That's what they are here for :) Lots to look through if you need anything just shout
Cheers for the information Tony. It certainly shows the benefit of proper pruning. The blackcurrants in my fruit cage will definitely be pruned this winter as I've had a few from them but I've noticed less this year. Good tip on using a fork to strip berries from the stalk. Take care. Nick
Cheers Nick, Glad the info was of use to you. Let me know how you get on with your pruning at the end of the year
Wow Tony - just fantastic. Certainly more than my harvest which equalled about 2 ounces! Hope you've got a large freezer!
I have a 6ft chest freezer but think I may need another for next year. Something to go on the Xmas list I guess lol.
Compliments from the U.S. loved the vid. You've earned a subscriber.
Thanks. Welcome to the channel. Always nice to gain new folks here 😉👍
hello Tony from UK here we grow !! Jesus H Christ, what on earth are you going to do with all them red current !!?? thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences and as always happy gardening !!
They will end up in berry mix for kids breakfast. cordial, pies jelly all sorts of things :)
Cracking Harvest Tony
Thanks. amazing how well 5 bushes can do when you help them along and keep the birds off. The oakland garden netting certainly did its job
What a harvest! I really miss currants, and gooseberries! Can't grow them here with these hot desert winds. It's a wonderful feeling when you can provide so much healthy, homegrown food for the family!
Oh, that's a shame. Yes, Thats why I work so hard on the plots. it's always nice having all this fruit and veg. The gooseberries are very sweet this year but I never netted them quick enough and the birds have had most. I will be sorting this issue though. Where is it you live?
UK Here We Grow - Texas
Ah, Yes. It's very dry there.Not great for soft fruits. However good for things like Melons and stuff, I guess everything is a trade off no matter where you are in the world. Is grass always greener though huh? Sometimes I wish to be somewhere dry. Wales has around 3300mm of rainfall a year so it's wet here a lot. But again I bet you wish for rain sometimes too lol
UK Here We Grow- yup! More rain would be nice! I grow pomegranates, stone fruit, apples, kiwis, blueberries, and figs as big as your fist!
I'd love to be able to grow pomegranates. I got 3 figs here but need to get them out of buckets and into the ground. plenty of blueberries, in fact, won't be long to harvest them. but id would love to get the figs going properly. any tips?
flippin eck .. that's a fantastic harvest 😀
Thanks, Tracy. Glad you think so, plenty to last throughout the year. Do you grow them?
UK Here We Grow ... no, not yet I don't!!! I grew blackcurrants for the first time this year .. 2 bushes ... and was delighted with 675g 🤣
Well black currants are the same to prune, so take a look at the pruning video for them and do it early Jan and you will get crops like this :)
I'd say that qualifies as huge and they were in pristine condition too. I have a few blackcurrant and redcurrant bushes around my place but they don't get much attention then the berries get hammered by the nation of blackbirds and thrushes we have here.
When we develop the other side of the garden I intend to start properly growing fruit and vegetables so I know where I will be watching for advice (I know bugger all about that...)
Lol Richard, well more than happy to have your view. When you back on the fields pal?
I am not even getting time for fishing presently as work is so mad. I'm also developing the land we have here so that is tying up much of my time.
Detecting will have to wait a good while I reckon and it may even be the autumn until I'm out although I will be taking the ATX on holiday with me for some sea based hunting and may use a gopro to film that (if I find anything decent)
You must have a huge harvest of red currents Tony, especially as you spent the whole picking
Yes it took some time Patrick but more than worth it. fruit for the year now :)
Tony, I'm not sure if you'll see this on such an old video, but where is the video on pruning red currants? I see black currants, but I know that's somewhat different because of how the fruit grows. But I figured I would go to the red currant specific video since you call it out. Thanks in advance. I appreciate your videos.
I didnt make a red currant one as its identical for all currants so use the methods in the black currant video
Got it. Thanks!
Hi Tony,
I wish I'd had seen your pruning video last year !
Still, we managed to get 1.5 kg off our single bush yesterday, which we made into redcurrant & chilli jelly this morning.
Nice tip on using the fork to strip the berries from the stalks, however you don't need to do this at all if you are just making jelly - the stalks get strained out with the rest of the solids.
By the way, I am in the process of designing / building my own polytunnel (2 x 4 m), inspired to a large extent by your video series. I managed to scrounge a load of old decking boards and joists from a neighbour's skip, so the basic cost should come in at under £100 (mainly the plastic pipe and sheeting). Unless you know of some reason why I shouldn't use it, I am going to use UV resistant PVC sheeting rather than the polythene which everyone else seems to use.
Oh. and I made a hand-cranked trommel last week after seeing yours. Mine uses a couple of plastic plant pots instead of the bicycle wheels, a sheet of mesh bought from Wilko's, some bits of the reclaimed timber and several other bits of recycled rubbish. It works a treat !
Thanks again for the information and the inspiration.
Your right about not needing to strip the stalks off if making Jelly but as we use the fruit for all sorts of stuff we do it as a matter of course. The polytunnel will be fantastic and you won't know yourself when you have it. It's the one thing all gardeners should have a tunnel or greenhouse.
The trommel sounds cool. In fact, that reminds me to take mine to my mums as she needs to borrow it. I do need to build a new frame for it this year so maybe another video on it will be coming up When I can find the time lol.
I am so glad my videos are inspiring you to go and try things yourself and put your own spin on them. It's the very reason I make them :) All you need now is a pond (Did I mention I have a few videos on those too ) lol
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I wish I could work that fast! Excellent crop, just as well mine are less successful, I am the only one who likes them. I just boil them up with a little sugar to eat with meat. Very nice blended with bought cranberries.
Yes they are nice like that Wendy. Have you tried cordial out of them
Hi Tony, what soil/compost do you recommend for these and blackcurrants
BUMBER harvest. Hard work does pay off. Congratulations buddy.
Cheers, Chris. Yes, it certainly does.
Can I propagate from cuttings now (April)? If so soft cuttings with rooting powder or hardwood cuttings poked a couple or few nodes into the soil?
I planted red currants last year, but they had some rather terrible branches - bent all over, broken, and such - got some good cuttings out of the deal though, and they came back, but some of them look a bit bendy, as it were. Had a small cluster on the one, but I think the wind knocked it off. We'll see what next year brings.
Andrew Lockwood yes it fruits one 2nd and 3rd year wood. then remove that third year wood to the ground. this will help with nice straight branches
Thanks - you can see how they look in some of my videos.
That is an amazing harvest Tony, I got about 15 berries off my one plant lol!!
Get pruning this winter. make sure your plant 3 yr old before u start though
I live in Johannesburg, South Africa and we do not grow currents. I have always been fascinated by currents. What will you do with the currents?
They get used in jams, jellies, chutney, smoothies, fruit salads, topping for breakfast all sorts
Currant Whisperer
How many red currant bushes do you have and far did you space them apart when you planted them? Thanks for the video!!
Amazing amount of fruit, what size and depth are the beds
Hi how and when do you prune yr currants. My just give me leaves…
Hi Tony. Thank you for this fantastic video. How old was the bushes at this time? Thanks alot
Around 4 years old
@@simplifygardening Thank you Tony
do the fruit on last year's or current year's growth? I have 4 red currant bushes and had ZERO fruit on them this year, i wonder they might be too young? I really congratulate you for your harvest! 👍
The idea with all currents is to prune 1/3 of the plant every year. you cut this right back tot he ground, so 1/3 of the oldest wood goes. currants fruit on 2nd and 3rd-year growth than its time to get rid. First-year growth won't fruit. pruning in this way will renew the plant every 3 years. I have 5 plants. and all that fruit came off the 5. How old are your bushes?
Place the bowl on the scale adjust the scale then place the fruit in the bowl
Yeah Rhonda, sometimes you cant see the wood for the trees. When your filming common sense goes right out of the window lol
Very good harvest . Time for some pies etc.
Yes, Pete. All sorts of things can be done with them throughout the year. How do you use yours?
Hi Tony only ever had black currents . But will have to give red a go.
Pete Froud pete you prune all currants the same mate. so give it a go on your black
Thanks Tony . Will be moving to a new house this year so plans are in hand.
That's excellent Pete. will be good to see what you do.
Hi Tony, that's a huge amount of redcurrants, do they normally ripen up at the same time? Also I've had a look at your pruning vid, I've just got myself a small young plants, roughly 2ft tall, should I bother with pruning when it goes dormant? I'll take a photo tomorrow and put it up on the UK Here We Grow Facebook page so you can have a look. Thanks hun. Alex
Hi, Alex. Don't start pruning until they are 3 years old, after this point the 3rd winter is time to start pruning but post the pics and tag me in them and I will take a look.
Thanks Tony
Anytime :)
Hi I have redcurrant for nearly 2 years how long it will have fruit ? thank u
Should fruit this year
Quick up date my redcurrant I find the fruit 3 redcurrant coming I am now over the moon thank u ☺️
we have had 4.5kg off 2 bushes.
Jason Reeve thats great Jason. try pruning them as per video this year you will get that up by a third.
Can I use red and black currant as front garden hedges?
Yes you could but they are not evergreen
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Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it 👍
What's the title of the instrumental that you used?
I cant remember it was one from a company that provided me their music Sorry for the late reply. A load of comments said they were responded to even though they were not. I am slowly working through them all.
Hi Tony, amazing crop, have you any tips on propagating redcurrants as there are some on a disused allotment next to mine an I'd love to be able to propagate from these, thanks.
Take a load of semi ripe cuttings now, ideal as soon as the fruit is off the plant. cut them to around 9 inches long and just below a bud. scrape one side of the cutting about 2 inches from the base up one side down to the light green cambium layer. if you have rooting compound (powder or gel makes no difference) dip it in that. If not, don't worry. Then pot them all up in one pot... I will try and make a video for you in the next week or so which will help more
Thank you so much, a video would be a brilliant help.
Give me a week or so and I will sort it
Is it a secret, how you grow?
stupid is as stupid .,.,.,.,.