Golden currant

This currant in the country areas is highly rare. Some gardeners consider it just a decorative bush with inedible berries. There are those who take it for a hybrid of black currant and gooseberry. But most do not know anything about it at all. It's a pity! This is a very valuable and useful plant.
Somehow on the wasteland, I came across a small rabid with carved leaves. Flower, I thought and carefully moved it to myself on the flowerbed. By the autumn "Flower" was already with a half-meter height. The next year, she also got drunk more than a meter. Looking at him more attentively, I realized that there was no flower, and the seedling currant is golden.
On the third year, the spring bolt bloomed, berries, and they ripen in July. It turned out, they are rather large - 2 cm long (size with a small plum), an unusual form in the form of a drop of black.
Now the former "flower" was drifting under two meters high, has a shape of a bush.
It fertures annually, almost nothing is sick and the pests are not selected.
I made several chains, I want to reduce the landing of ordinary currant in favor of Golden. I know that there are still its other varieties with round, large, like cherry, berries, also black

colors. Only here to get? I did not meet the market for golden currants in the market, I also don't have it in the nurseries.
Berries have a good taste and do not cry for a long time. And one more advantage. Golden currant is well tolerated haircut. I met the bushes of this variety, which turned 25 years old, and they looked good, isn't the usual currant live so much?
Golden currant berries We eat fresh and cook compote. But this is still a busher is still young. It will become older, it will be possible to use both the berries of ordinary currant.
They are rich in vitamins and useful substances. And how did I do without my useful and tasty "flower"?

S.P. Fedorchuk 07/08/2010 at 21:02.

Benefits of growing golden currant
• It grows on any soils, including salt marshes;
• Unlike the black sister, it is well tolerating drought and strong frosts;
• It is possible to strengthen the slopes of ravines;
• And it's still to grow where - in the sun or in the shade.