Black currant - tasty and healthy berry, beloved by all gardeners. It is eaten fresh, canned, boiled jam, jam, jelly, marmalade, compote, juice, alcohol are made from it.
Currently, there are more than 200 varieties of currants in Russia. Sometimes it is difficult to choose a particular variety for your garden plot, because it seems that each variety is better than all the others.
In this case, you can plant different varieties of all periods of ripening to prolong the fruiting period and understand which one tastes better.
Depending on the time of ripening, black currant varieties are divided into three types:
- early;
- medium;
- late
Early varieties of black currant
Woman resident
The shape of the bush is sprawling, while the branches are almost flat on the ground. The berries ripen a little at different times, but the taste is sweet, completely without acid, and large - the weight reaches 3-3.5 grams.
Exotic
The berry of this variety is one of the largest among Russian varieties - its weight reaches five grams. It tastes sweet and sour.
Berries are characterized by a dry margin, which greatly facilitates their collection.
The variety is upright, winter-hardy.
Selechenskaya
The bushes are slightly sluggish, thick, of medium height. The leaves are five-lobed, wrinkled, with small teeth. The berries are sweet. The grade maintains low temperature, is steady against such diseases as mealy dew, a bud mite.
The plant needs to pay a lot of attention, but the high yield results are encouraging.
Selechinsky 2
Variety combines signs of gooseberry and wild currant. Withstands heat and adapts to any changes in the weather. Leaves are three-lobed, wrinkled, dark green in color, with rounded teeth.
The bush is a vigorous, has high results of fruiting - up to four to five kilograms from one bush. The berries are shiny, large, with a pleasant taste.
Red currant. Planting and care - note gardener.
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Red currant. Planting and care - note gardener.Medium black currant varieties
Dobrynya
Resistant to small frosts. Not quite resistant to kidney tick, anthracnose and does not oppose powdery mildew at all. Slaborosly bush, but the berries are large.
Dubrovskaya. Productivity makes about three kilograms from one bush. The bush is quite compact, undersized. The berries are not very large.
Raisin
Bushes do not crumble and have a good harvest, contain vitamin C per 100 g - 174 mg.
Resistant to slight frosts. In addition, drought-resistant.
One of the sweet varieties.
Pygmy
The bush is small, slightly sprawling. Brushes curved, light green. Berries are one of the largest - the weight reaches eight grams. The fruits are very sweet, with a thin skin. Variety withstands cold, resistant to most diseases. High-yielding.
Perun
The bush is semi-sprawling, medium-growth, drought-resistant, frost-resistant, but not particularly resistant to various diseases - anthracnose, powdery mildew, bud mite, etc. The amount of the harvest is three to four kilograms from a single bush. The berries have a strong flavor.
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Vologda
The bush is vigorous, with large berries, but ripening slightly at different times. It is well resistant to any diseases, except kidney mite. Productivity makes up to three-four kilograms from one bush.
Venus late
The bush is not very sprawling, vigorous. The berries are large, reach six grams by weight, have excellent taste, have a thin skin.
Katyusha
The bush is slightly sprawling, at the same time it is vigorous, winter-hardy, resistant to diseases of anthracnose, powdery mildew, but rather susceptible to the bud mite. The berries are large in size and have a dense skin.
Mermaid
Bush is sredneraskidisty, vigorous, winter-hardy. Not very resistant to diseases such as septoria, anthracnose. Berries are relatively large. Up to 3.5 kilograms of the crop can be harvested from one currant bush of this variety.
Vigorous
Shrub semi-sprawling, medium size. The variety is suitable for those who prefer large berries. The size of the fruit reaches eight grams.
Berries are collected in clusters like grapes. In one brush usually 7-8 berries. Their flesh is dense, with a refreshing sour taste.
The variety is highly resistant to frost, but not very protected from the defeat of various diseases, it requires attention and quality care. It is necessary to dig and fertilize the soil, water regularly.
The variety reproduces quite well.
Frost-resistant varieties of black currant
In a separate group can be distinguished those varieties of currants, which are most resistant to frost, and therefore more suitable for the northern regions. These varieties include:
Leah is fertile
Shrubs begin to bear fruit in the second or third year after planting, and the variety is very productive. Often the stands of this variety are littered with low-value impurities, and this significantly reduces the amount of the crop. The berries are small in size, have a sweet-sour taste, a strong aroma, are very rich in vitamin C.
The variety is well suited for making jam, jam, juice, alcoholic liqueur.
Neapolitan Berries have an average size. At the base of the bush large brush.
The flesh tastes sweet and sour, green in color.
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The bush is low and not very thick, medium-sprawling. The berries are quite large (5 g), with a small amount of seeds, have a sweet-sour taste and a pleasant aroma.
Venus
Bush medium density and height. The berries are large, their weight reaches 6 g, with a sweet dessert taste, thin skin. The disadvantages include poor resistance to some diseases - Septoria, kidney tick.
If it is not possible to regularly water currant bushes, then it is better to choose a drought-resistant variety for planting.
