Winter is a great time to uncover the latent potential in your garden. While many flowering and fruiting plants are taking their seasonal rest, it's not only an ideal time to plan spring growth but to ...

Another little-known berry is the currant. The ribes family includes several varieties, including ribes negrum (blackcurrant) and ribes rubrum (red currant). Berries come in black, red and white and ...

Few homeowners are acquainted with the Ribes (RYE-bees) family of plants; gooseberries, currants and jostaberries. There are over 150 ribes species in the world, including gooseberries and clove or ...

LAKE MINCHUMINA, Alaska — Strings of shimmering deep-red berries slid through my fingers, glowing like colored cut glass in warm afternoon sunlight. Picking two-handed, I quickly stripped the bush of ...

FOR DECADES, THEY were literally a forbidden fruit. Fresh currants are a popular crop in Europe and grow reasonably well in Washington state. But the tart, translucent strings of berries — “little ...

A gardener planting a berry bush - Miriam-doerr/Getty Images For gardeners in cool climates, the idea of a thriving, fruit-filled orchard often clashes with the harsh reality of a short growing season ...

In Southeast Alaska we are surrounded by a living, flowing and berried world. The Inside Passage rises and falls, wispy cirrus clouds drift, sandpipers migrate, and red currants drop into our buckets ...

My favorite berries are blueberries (wild Alaska ones, of course) and raspberries, but I also have a special place in my heart for currants. Like many Americans, currants aren’t a mainstay. I first ...