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- Transplant currants to another location
- Does it make sense to transplant the shrub?
- The best time for the move
- The individual steps to transplant currants
- Tips for posting
- Crop currant
- Tips & Tricks
Transplant currants to another location
A very high-yielding currant bush is in an unfavorable position when redesigning your garden? Then just plant it. But it's only worth it if the shrub is not too old.
Does it make sense to transplant the shrub?
Before you transplant redcurrant bushes, consider whether the move is really worthwhile. Bushes that are older than 15 years hardly bear any more berries.
After transplanting you can harvest only a few currants in the first years. It takes two to three years until the currant is as productive again as before transplanting.
You should therefore only transfer red currant bushes if they are younger plants.
The best time for the move
Best to transplant your currant bushes in autumn. Then the soil is wet and does not dry out so fast.
If you wait until spring, the shrub needs much more care. In addition, the currant roots worse.
The individual steps to transplant currants
Tips for posting
Lift the new planting hole generously. It should have a larger diameter than the root ball of the shrub.
Make a circle around the currant with the spade. It should be larger than the shrub diameter.
Lift the plant out of the ground with a grave fork and make sure that you dig out as many roots as possible.
Crop currant
Remove all shoots except for the annual branches. You will not have to cut the shrub until the second year.
Shorten the roots only slightly, so that the plant retains sufficient root system.
Put the currant out of the old planting hole with plenty of soil to the new location.
Tips & Tricks
It is not usually worthwhile to replant elder currants. Just pull off offshoots from your shrub. The propagation takes place via cuttings or sinkers. As a result, you will gain new currant shrubs of your high-yielding variety, which will produce berries for many years to come.