Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated photo shows a red currant espalier in New Paltz, N.Y. Red currant plants are especially easy to train and prune as ...

Currants (Ribes spp.) are misunderstood and undervalued. Some people even call them minor fruits. First, the berries are not grapes. Second, they don't grow on vines, but rather on shrubs. Currants ...

My favorite berries are blueberries (wild Alaska ones, of course) and raspberries, but I also have a special place in my heart for currants. Like many Americans, currants aren’t a mainstay. I first ...

I have grown, maintained, and harvested blackcurrant, redcurrant, and whitecurrant bushes in walled kitchen gardens and on my home plots for many years. I always found them simple to grow, easy to ...

This is the second in a series for pruning small fruits in the Iowa home garden by Linn County Master Gardener, Lisa Slattery. Today's blog will cover gooseberries and currants. The next two weeks ...

Espalier: how to train plants for the tracery of branches This undated photo shows a red currant espalier in New Paltz, N.Y. Red currant plants are especially easy to train and prune as decorative ...

Espalier is a way of training and pruning plants so their branches lie in an orderly and ornamental two-dimensional form. The beauty comes from the tracery of the branches. Espalier is a way to create ...