While currants have long been a classic for in-ground gardening, you may have hesitated on growing them in planters. Though they may not be the best berries to grow in containers, you don't have to ...

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 ...

Do you have a small, green bush in your yard that produces red, black, yellow-ish, or pink berries? Then that may be a currant bush, known by the broader genus name of 'Ribes'. These delightful shrubs ...

Few homeowners are acquainted with the Ribes (RYE-bees) family of plants; gooseberries, currants and jostaberries. There are over 150 ribes species in the world, including gooseberries and clove or ...

Woolly elm aphids leave their serviceberry hosts and the end of the summer and fly to elms where they'll lay their eggs in bark crevices to overwinter. (Courtesy photo) I planted a Red Lake Currant ...

We are eager in spring to see buds opening and flowers blooming after a dark, mostly rainy winter. Sometimes in spring when we venture out on a nicer day, we are met with the surprise of our currant ...

In Southeast Alaska we are surrounded by a living, flowing and berried world. The Inside Passage rises and falls, wispy cirrus clouds drift, sandpipers migrate, and red currants drop into our buckets ...