Prune all other branches ... and older branches (black colour) in winter, cutting right back to the base. Birds like to eat the developing buds of currant bushes, so protect plants in the winter.

Pruning improves yield and helps ... Martha's red, golden, and black raspberry bushes are pruned. "Just like the currants and gooseberries, the raspberry canes cut first are those that are dead ...

While black currant (Ribes nigrum) production is prevalent in Europe and New Zealand, it has been slow to take off in North America. Availability of increasingly disease-resistant cultivars has ...