Hi, I would like to exchange for your egyptian onions and yellow multiplier, I have rooted black and red currant plant for exchange, pleae send e_mail if your are interested,

I would love to experiment with currant cuttings this winter. Let me know if you have any to share and are interested in my trade list http://members.gardenweb.com/members/exch/cactuspaul or Natchez thornless blackberry cuttings or plants Hardy kiwi, male and female cuttings or plants poncirus cuttings, or fresh seed fresh sabal minor seed or plants elderberry cuttings or plants brown turkey fig cuttings or plants passiflora incarnata seed passiflora caereula cuttings Let me know if you are interested Paul

I want to go off-topic and say if you don't have blueberries and live in Oregon, they are far superior to both, and a range of early, mid and late will keep you in blueberries all summer and even up to frost. Also my preference after blueberries would be Aronia, then black currants, they have a much richer taste than red currants. They are also loaded with anti-oxidants, 3 berries have as much as 3 glasses of wine. But red currants do hold well and mine are loaded every year. Gooseberries are much poorer yielders. The Black Velvet or dark red ones taste best to me, the green Oregon Champion has typically attracted a fly that lays eggs on them and the larvae strip all the leaves off so I get no fruit. Also there has started to be a problem with the spotted wing Drosophila maggots in red and black currants. I haven't seen them in blueberries yet, I hope that doesn't happen. I am going to put up traps this next spring.

I have a couple Red Lake and they have not had mildew problems in six years. In fact only one year I had any mildew at all. The reason why I don't like them however is the small berries. Rovada are far bigger then Red Lake and are also quite a bit bigger than JvT. So I would say that is a bigger reason to consider pulling them - its much faster to harvest the big berries than the tiny ones. What I did with my Red Lakes is put them in a pretty shady spot. They still produce a fair amount. Scott