Currant ‘Summer Pearls’ Collection
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Currants are a great starting point if you?re new to growing your own soft fruit and our collection of ?Summer Pearls? is the perfect way to get started!
Redcurrant ?Summer Pearls Red? are a wonderful variety with its gorgeous looking, wonderful tasting bunches of shiny bright red fruit. A great source of a wide range of vitamins, this tasty superfruit is a superb addition to your favourite desserts or breakfast cereals, accompanying ice cream and for making redcurrant jelly. Harvest them by picking the whole string, they?re delicious eaten straight from the bush but long lasting in the fridge and freezer too. Fruits between June and August.
Whitecurrant ?Summer Pearls White? is very similar to its cousin, the redcurrant. However, whereas the redcurrant can be a rather tart, the whitecurrant is much, much sweeter whilst retaining a noticeable zing to its taste. As the name suggests, the fruit of ?Summer Pearls White? really does look like perfect little translucent pearls with a pale golden sheen, and they?re deliciously sweet, juicy and tasty too! A perfect accompaniment to cereals and desserts or eaten straight from the bush, it?s in cooking that these vitamin packed currants come into their own. They?re so incredibly sweet that no added sugar is needed when making jams and pies. Fruits between June and July.
One of the largest blackcurrants available, Blackcurrant ?Summer Pearls Black? will reward you with huge, juicy berries giving you a whole new eating experience! Unlike other varieties of blackcurrant, this beauty can be picked as single berries rather a cluster making the sweet and aromatic, single fruit perfect for snacking. Fruits in June.
Redcurrants make attractive garden plants and can be easily trained as cordons and espaliers against a wall or fence. Although they produce the sweetest tasting fruit when grown in full sun, they also do well in partial shade. So easy to grow, hardy and vigorous, cropping reliably whilst requiring little care.
Supplied as three established plants in 9cm pots, one of each flavour, ready for planting.
Care Information
Planting Advice for ?Summer Pearls?
- Easy-to-grow soft fruits that cope with a wide range of soil conditions, they’re best grown in well-drained, fertile soil with a neutral to acid pH.
- Full sun is preferred, but partial shade is tolerated, and plants can be even trained against a north wall.
- Keep the area around the bushes free of other plants – a mulch of well-rotted compost, manure or bark will help supress weeds and retain moisture.
- Water your potted plant well.
- Dig a hole a little deeper and 3 x wider than the nursery pot.
- Add a soil conditioner such as well-rotted manure to the earth removed from the hole if necessary.
- Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots.
- Place your plant in the hole at the same level at the pot.
- Refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling).
- Firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball.
- Water well and mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc.
Aftercare Advice for ?Summer Pearls?
- Currants prefer moist, well-drained soil in full sun, or light shade.
- Keep well-watered.
- In late winter, feed with a balanced fertiliser, following the instructions.
- If growing in a pot, choose one that is around 45-50cm (18-20in) in diameter and use a good-quality compost (John Innes No 3 is ideal).
- Repot every 2-3 years into the same pot or slightly larger. Trim back some of the roots and tease away the old soil replacing it with fresh JI No 3 compost.
Pruning Advice for your ?Summer Pearls?
- Currants bear their fruit on old wood. Prune bushes by removing diseased or very old branches in winter, then prune new growth back to two buds in early summer to keep plants compact.
- Leaders should be pruned to outward facing buds unless the branches are bending, in which case they then should be cut to upward facing buds.
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