Currant prices and crop volumes - what lies ahead?
The harvest of black and red currants, the raw material supplied to processing plants, is fast approaching. The first price proposals are already appearing, although it seems that for the time

Early redcurrant variety with sweet fruit
A new alternative redcurrant variety to the already proven Jonkheer variety may be the 'Red Lake' variety Marlena®. This red currant has been propagated for 5 years at the German nursery in

There will be no blackcurrants this year!
Well, I may have gone a bit overboard with the title of the entry. But it is fair to say that the harvest will be much lower than usual. It is very difficult to estimate a predictable yield

Currants at the fruit-ripening stage - pests and diseases - control (plantation monitoring, 24.05.2023).
Currants are in the fruit-growing phase, and several pest species are currently to be inspected. There is also a disease risk. The treatments to be carried out when these threats are identified

Currants - pests and diseases during flowering (plantation monitoring, Lublin region 28.04.2023).
Coloured currants are now in full bloom in most regions of Poland. This is an important time to carry out inspections for the presence of pests such as currant bollworm, hop spider, aphids and

Black and red currant (monitoring of plantations, Lublin region 22.04.2023)
The phenological phase of plants was determined for two black currant varieties and two red currant varieties on plantations located in the Lublin Province. Blackcurrant, more specifically early

Coloured currants already in bloom (plantation monitoring, 20.04.2023)
With each passing day we are approaching the end of April, the weather is getting warmer and more flowering plants are appearing every day. Currants will be joining this venerable group in a

Currant - planting, cultivation, pruning and care
For a bountiful currant harvest, the seedling is best planted in soil with a slightly acidic or neutral pH (6.5 pH) at about 10-15 cm. Ideally, the spacing between rows should be 4 m and 50-70 cm