Mark Diacono makes a case for blackcurrants being one of the best — and simplest — fruits to grow in your garden.
In a jar to the side of my desk sit a number of upturned items: a 6H pencil from the table at which my father wrote that I use for sketching garden plans, a pen for writing plant labels and a fork that’s more practical than pretty.
This is the fork — with its coarse tines — to which I turn for a month or two each summer to strip the blackcurrants…
