On Sunday, Camilla showed us how to prune the black currants to encourage lots of sideshoots and , eventually, fruit.

Blackcurrant need to be pruned to an outward facing bud close to the ground

this leaves very little!

Prunings longer than 20cm can be used as hardwood cuttings: trim off straight below a node at the bottom and ant an angle above a bud near the top.

Then push the cuttings into soft ground: with luck some will take root:

They can be moved to a permanent position next year