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Black, red, and white currants are among the easiest fruits to grow. They all produce heavy crops which you can eat fresh or preserve into delicious jams, chutneys, and other year-round treats.
You can learn more about growing berries on our resources page.
Bareroot berries | January to March
Nearly all of our berries are sold in bareroot from January to March. We find this is the best way to get your berries started since they're dormant until the weather warms up in spring.
Potted berries | all year round
Some berries are notoriously difficult to get started from bareroot (ahem, raspberries), as many gardeners will have experienced. Because of this, we also stock a large selection of potted berries in spring and throughout the rest of the year. The best selection, and the best time to plant in order to have ripe summer berries the same year, is in spring (April to June). Outside of these times our selection can be limited.
Blackcurrant Ben Connan
Blackcurrant Ben Connan
€14.00
Blackcurrant Ben Connan Large, glossy black fruits with a superb rich flavour. Another one of the late-flowering, cold-resistant Ben series that were developed in Scotland. Blackcurrant Ben Connan is a dwarf variety; at 3-4’ (1-1.2m) high it’s a good choice for small gardens. As with all the Ben series, the fruits ripen simultaneously, allowing ...
Blackcurrant Ben Sarek
Blackcurrant Ben Sarek
€14.00
Blackcurrant Ben Sarek One of the late-flowering, cold-resistant Ben series developed in Scotland, early Blackcurrant Ben Sarek is a dwarf variety; at 3-4’ (1-1.2m) high it’s a good choice for small gardens. The berries are large, with an excellent flavour. The bush is a very heavy cropper; branches may need support from the weight of the fruit....
Blackcurrant Ben Tirran
Blackcurrant Ben Tirran
€14.00
Blackcurrant Ben Tirran One of the late-flowering, cold-resistant Ben series developed in Scotland, Blackcurrant Ben Tirran is a very late cropping variety, extending the blackcurrant season. It also flowers late, making it a good choice for colder areas. The berries are small to medium sized with a rich, full flavour, and cook down well; berrie...
Fruit Cage and Crop Protection Net
€12.00
Fruit cage and crop protection net This fruit cage and crop protection net is specifically designed to be used over a simple framework which can be constructed using a number of strong canes and cane joiners. The net has a square mesh which makes it ideally suited to fruit cages, easy to handle and tangle-free. It is also rot-proof and has reinf...
Grow It Bio™ Fruit | Organic Plant Food
€0.00
Grow It Bio™ Fruit | Organic Plant Food Grow It Bio™ Fruit is a certified Organic Fruit feed that is rich in nutrients, trace elements and vitamins. This feed promotes microbiological life, improves soil structure and enriches the soil, giving healthier plants and higher yields. A family owned Irish company. BenefitsRich in trace elementsFeeds...
Neudorff Pyrol Bug & Larvae Killer
€10.00
Neudorff Pyrol Bug & Larvae Killer Approved by Organic Farmers & Growers Association, the unique formulation of Pyrol Bug & Larvae Killer controls a wide range of harmful pests including aphids, whitefly, greenfly, spider mites, mealy bugs, scale insects, leaf hoppers and thrips. It also acts on the eggs and larvae of the insects t...
Ocean Leaves Liquid Seaweed Extract
Ocean Leaves Liquid Seaweed Extract
€8.00
Ocean Leaves Liquid Seaweed Extract Ocean Leaves® Liquid Seaweed Extract is made using cold-processed, hand-harvested Irish seaweed. It can be used on fruit, vegetables, flowers, shrubs, trees and lawns. Induces yield increases, enhances plant health & plant quality Increases plant tolerance to, and recovery from abiotic stresses Enhances...
Ocean Leaves, Irish Liquid Seaweed Extract with IRON
€13.50
Ocean Leaves, Irish Liquid Seaweed Extract with IRON Ocean Leaves® Liquid Seaweed Extract + Iron is made using cold-processed, hand-harvested Irish seaweed and has been fortified with Iron (2% EDTA Chelated Iron (fe) w/w). It can be used on fruit, vegetables, flowers and lawns, and is recommended for ericaceous and acid-loving plants. It is used...
Blackcurrant Malling Jet
Blackcurrant Malling Jet
€6.00
Blackcurrant Malling Jet Bred by the East Malling research station in Kent, late Blackcurrant Malling jet is a large, vigorous variety, suitable for larger gardens. It flowers very late, making it a good choice for colder areas. The berries are small to medium sized, with a fairly good, slightly acidic flavour, and borne on very long strigs, whi...
Jostaberry
Jostaberry
€8.00
Jostaberry A hybrid between a gooseberry and a blackcurrant, the Jostaberry (pronounced ‘yustaberry’) was developed in Germany early in the last century. It looks like a (thornless!) gooseberry, and is usually grown as a bush, but stooled (planted deeply) like a blackcurrant. Jostaberry is long-lived and very vigorous, but can be pruned to a man...
Redcurrant Jonkeer van Tets
Redcurrant Jonkeer van Tets
€10.00
Redcurrant Jonkeer van Tets An early redcurrant variety, ‘Jonkeer van Tets’ is a vigorous, upright bush giving very heavy crops of large, juicy berries; one of the best redcurrants for flavour. The berries are highly ornamental, a brilliant, translucent scarlet, but you will have to net them against birds. Flowers early in the year, so don’t pla...
Redcurrant Red Lake
Redcurrant Red Lake
€6.00
Redcurrant Red Lake A very popular mid-season variety of redcurrant, ‘Red Lake’ is a fairly vigorous, medium-sized, upright bush which gives very reliable, heavy crops of very large, well-flavoured, juicy berries carried on long ‘strings’, which makes them very easy to pick. Don’t plant in a frost pocket, as it flowers early in the year. Good di...
Redcurrant Rovada
Redcurrant Rovada
€6.00
Redcurrant Rovada A late-season redcurrant, ‘Rovada’ is also late to flower, making it a good choice for colder areas. Fairly vigorous, medium-sized, upright bush which gives reliable, exceptionally heavy crops of very large, well-flavoured berries on long 'strings', making them easy to pick. Crops for a long period, is disease resistant, and ve...
Whitecurrant Blanka
Whitecurrant Blanka
€6.00
Whitecurrant Blanka Bred in the Netherlands, Whitecurrant Blanka is a new variety, increasingly in demand for its very heavy cropping. The berries are large, ivory-coloured and translucent with a sweet flavour, and can be eaten straight off the bush, or used to make a delicious pink jelly or as a very pretty garnish for cakes and puddings. They ...
Whitecurrant White Versailles
€5.00
Whitecurrant White Versailles Justly popular early variety of whitecurrant, very reliable, heavy-cropping and easy to grow; fruits well even in northern areas. Upright growth on a medium-sized bush which will produce for many years. Fruit borne on long, heavy ‘strigs’ which makes for easy picking. The currants are large, pale yellow and transluc...
Worcesterberry
Worcesterberry
€8.00
Worcesterberry Looks like a gooseberry, but is in fact, a species of currant, Ribes divaricatum, from the western United States. Worcesterberries are big, vigorous, upright and very thorny – makes a good stock-proof hedge, but not one for the smaller garden, where it’s more manageable grown as a cordon. Reliable, heavy cropper, with small, smoot...