On 2oth September, we had an open day as part of the ‘Big Dig’ edible gardens open day, with food and activities to show what we were doing at the garden.
Forty five people came to look round and see what we were up to.
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
Petersfield Community Garden 