A selection of modern disease-resistant varieties.
- Blackcurrant Ben Hope
This ‘big bud’ resistant blackcurrant is particularly suitable for organic gardeners. It is one of the best flavoured varieties, exceptionally heavy yielding and also resistant to mildew, leaf spot and rust. The bush is vigorous and tall and is therefore … Continue reading
- Blackcurrant Ben Sarek
A particularly good variety for the small garden having neat, compact bushes about 3ft high which are strong growing and frost resistant. Very high yielding, the large fruit is easily picked from short strigs. Ready for harvesting mid-July.
- Blackcurrant Ben Tirran
Blackcurrant Ben Tirran is a late season cropper which provides a good extension to the season. Vigorous high yielding variety medium sized juicy fruit.
- Gooseberry Hinnonmaki green
Gooseberry Hinnonmaki Green is a very hardy mid season gooseberry. The medium to large greenish fruit has an excellent sweet, aromatic flavour, with a hint of apricot and offers good disease resistance.
- Gooseberry Hinnonmaki red
Hinnomaki Red is a variety from Finland with superb flavor, high yields, and a beautiful red fruit color. The outer skin is tangy while the flesh is sweet. The plants grow upright and are mildew resistant. These very productive plants … Continue reading
- Gooseberry Whitesmith
Greenish-yellow, mid season, large, good culinary, heavy cropper.. Ripe from late July.
- Redcurrant Junifer
Junifer crops appreciably earlier than Rovada – for redcurrant gluttons and unusually for a redcurrant Junifer will carry fruit on both this and last year’s wood. The fruit is tasty – although the flavour is not as strong as Rovada … Continue reading
- Whitecurrant White Versailles
Pale yellow and pleasantly sweet, very reliable heavy crops, early July.
