The highlights
- Intense flavour and juiciness
- A highly-productive variety
- Use the juice for wine or bake in a tart
- Harvest from July to August
Description
- If you’re looking for a productive blackcurrant bush, then look no further than ‘Ben Alder’!
- This variety, first bred in Scotland by The James Hutton Institute (formerly the Scottish Crop Research Institute), is vigorous and well-suited to growing in British conditions (it can easily withstand temperatures well below freezing)
- The pocket-sized shiny currants boast great sweetness (with just a little earthy tartness) and are perfect for juicing and making cordials – or wine, if that’s more your tipple!
- These blackcurrants will freeze well, so don’t panic if you’re left with more berries than you know what to do with
- Certified by the Royal Horticultural Society as one of its Plants for Pollinators
