Currant

Currant

Ribes rubrum

Plant out 4 weeks before your last spring frost. Space plants 48 in (122 cm) apart.

Photo: Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

When to plant

Timed from your frost dates, so it holds wherever you garden. Give yours and every step below becomes a date.

See the dates for your garden

Enter your average last spring frost and first fall frost. Every timing on this site turns into a calendar date. Not sure of yours? Your local extension service or a search for “last frost date” and your town will tell you; the app finds them from your location.

Last spring frost
First fall frost

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Optimal Spring Planting (Bare-Root)

RootRecommended
  1. Plant out4 weeks before your last spring frost
  2. First harvestthe first crop about 2 years after planting

Growing currant

Spacing in the row
48 in (122 cm)
Between rows
96 in (244 cm)
Planting depth
About 1 inch deeper than it grew in the nursery
Sun
Partial Shade
Years to first crop
2
Hardy to
USDA zone 3
Life cycle
Perennial

Feeding

How often
Once a year, in early spring. Apply just before the buds swell; skip the planting year, and give extra nitrogen if mulched with hay or straw.

Your currant, planned to the day.

Canopy turns these timings into dates from your own frost data, places every plant at its spacing on your garden map, and tracks it all the way to harvest.

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