Many of us like the useful and fragrant currant berries. Almost every summer cottage is planted with bushes. And so that you can choose the best of them for planting in your garden, let's look at what kinds of currants exist.
The best varieties of black currant
Before you buy a bush of currant, ask, for which region is this or that seedling. If you want to get a crop of currant berries early, then acquire early varieties, for example, "Pearl" and "Selechenskaya", whose fruits are sweet and large. The "Black Boomer" sort is popular with children, because its berries are very tasty. "Dobrynya" has long brushes with aromatic sweet and sour berries.
Later varieties of this variety of currant are excellent for conservation. These include "Bummer" with large and sweet berries, "Kipiana" yield up to 5 kg of berries from one bush. Interesting late variety of black currant called "Yadrenaya", sourish berries which sometimes are larger than cherries.
In order to harvest the entire season, plant on your site a few currant bushes with a different maturation period.
The best varieties of red currant
As a rule, early varieties of red currant ripen in early summer. This is the "Early Sweet", giving from the bush to 4 kg of delicious and long-falling berries, and "Rachnovskaya" (its yield is up to 6 kg). The variety "Konstantinovskaya" is wintering,
The best varieties of white currant
A variety of red currants - white-berry berries, ripening in the middle of summer. These include "Versailles white" with berries of yellowish color, "Diamond" with very tasty transparent berries. The variety "Smolyaninskaya" has a strong and spreading bush, which gives up to 9 kg of delicious berries.