If ever you are looking at a list of varieties of Blackcurrants and feeling lost as to which one to grow, you won’t be disappointed with Big Ben. This variety is sweet enough to eat off the bush. Producing large quantities of good sized fruit in July. It really is all about the taste. Big ben makes excellent jam and is a good contribution to a fruit salad. While the leaves are useful for a flavoursome blackcurrant herbal infusion drink. It is the only fruit bush that I have had to stake the individual branches to avoid them breaking under the weight of fruit.

Pollination: Self fertile

Harvest time: July

Grown as: Bare root

Hardiness: Hardy

Aspect: Full sun, will take some shade

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