Gooseberries have been cultivated in England as far back as the 13th century but were not widely grown until the early 1500s. They come in a range of colours including red, white, green and yellow.

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 ...

On an episode of Big Dreams, Small Spaces for BBC Two, Monty helped an amateur gardener choose plants for her garden. The series, which first aired in 2014, saw Monty work with amateur gardeners from ...

Plant a currant bush and you'll soon be picking lots of plump berries. White, red and blackcurrants are perfect for a sunny or slightly shaded spot, and once established are really easy to look after.

My son gave me a standard gooseberry two years ago that has an abundance of sweet, maroon fruit. How and when should I prune it? It sounds as if your gooseberry is a variety called ‘London’ – and it ...

Autumn marks a hectic period in the pruning schedule, representing the ideal moment to eliminate aged growth and shape plants ...

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 ...

To prune or not to prune in the winter! Do prune summer flowering shrubs and trees such as the Rose of Sharon, crepe myrtle, butterfly bush, smoke bush and beauty berry which produce flower buds on ...

Q: We live in Kensington and have had gooseberry and currant plants in the ground for three years. We have had less than three to five berries per plant. Both plants were in full sun. The gooseberry ...