{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "record_type": "plant",
  "slug": "currant",
  "common_name": "Currants",
  "botanical_name": "Ribes nigrum and Ribes rubrum",
  "family": "Grossulariaceae",
  "summary": "Currants are hardy, usually self-fertile perennial fruit shrubs; blackcurrants crop best on renewed young wood, while red, white and pink currants fruit on older spurs.",
  "categories": [
    "soft fruit",
    "perennial crop",
    "container crop"
  ],
  "growth_habits": [
    "deciduous shrub",
    "thornless",
    "bush or trained form"
  ],
  "lifecycle": "Woody perennial",
  "difficulty": "Moderate",
  "requirements": {
    "light": {
      "minimum_direct_sun_hours": 4,
      "preferred_direct_sun_hours": 6
    },
    "soil_ph": {
      "minimum": 5.6,
      "maximum": 6.5
    },
    "container": {
      "minimum_volume_litres": 40,
      "minimum_diameter_cm": 45,
      "plants_per_container": 1
    },
    "spacing": {
      "minimum_cm": 120,
      "maximum_cm": 180
    },
    "planting_out": {
      "minimum_reliable_temperature_c": 0,
      "frost_tolerant": true,
      "label": "Plant bush",
      "note": "Dormant bushes are hardy; protect open flowers from damaging late frost"
    },
    "harvest": {
      "typical_uk_months": [
        "June",
        "August"
      ]
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "rhs-growing-blackcurrants",
      "publisher": "Royal Horticultural Society",
      "url": "https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/blackcurrants/grow-your-own",
      "supports": [
        "types",
        "light",
        "planting",
        "spacing",
        "containers",
        "water",
        "feeding",
        "propagation",
        "pruning",
        "harvest"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "rhs-growing-redcurrants",
      "publisher": "Royal Horticultural Society",
      "url": "https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/redcurrants/grow-your-own",
      "supports": [
        "types",
        "light",
        "spacing",
        "containers",
        "support",
        "water",
        "feeding",
        "propagation",
        "harvest"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "rhs-redcurrant-pruning",
      "publisher": "Royal Horticultural Society",
      "url": "https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/redcurrants/redcurrant-pruning-and-training",
      "supports": [
        "growth_habits",
        "support",
        "pruning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "umn-growing-currants-gooseberries",
      "publisher": "University of Minnesota Extension",
      "url": "https://extension.umn.edu/gardening-minnesota/growing-currants-and-gooseberries-home-garden",
      "supports": [
        "types",
        "self_fertility",
        "light",
        "planting",
        "spacing",
        "problems",
        "storage"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "osu-growing-minor-berries",
      "publisher": "Oregon State University Extension",
      "url": "https://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/em-9182-growing-berries-oregon-coast-gooseberries-currants-other-minor-berry-crops",
      "supports": [
        "types",
        "self_fertility",
        "soil_ph",
        "spacing",
        "pruning",
        "harvest",
        "problems"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kew-ribes-nigrum",
      "publisher": "Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew",
      "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/792873-1",
      "supports": [
        "botanical_name",
        "family",
        "lifecycle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kew-ribes-rubrum",
      "publisher": "Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew",
      "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A792965-1",
      "supports": [
        "botanical_name",
        "family",
        "lifecycle"
      ]
    }
  ]
}