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Old January 6, 2018   #7
Medbury Gardens
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Originally Posted by bower View Post
Well they may not pick your currants for free, but I bet they'd buy the jelly if you made it to sell. Currants are fantastic fruit, both black and red. I make jelly the easy way, stems included in the boil. It adds a little note to the flavor which we like. This also makes it a lot easier to pick em - never by the each. Boil and steep it first, then stir in the sugar, then pectin and you're done. Great stuff.
Sounds very straight forward weve picked all we need for a year. Apart from cutting back once a year they are pretty much care free, dont even bother mow around them.
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