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IF YOU think your garden or gardening skills aren’t up to growing fruit, think again. Blackcurrant bushes are very easy to care for and they take up little space – perhaps a couple of square metres each.
I do little to my own plant, apart from throwing some garden netting over it every summer for a month or so to stop the birds from stealing the crop. I hold the netting away from the fruits with a ramshackle structure of bamboo canes, which can be taken down once the berries are picked.
Blackcurrants’ weakness, though, is a potential vulnerability to climate…
