Planting out blackcurrant cuttings
A lot of my existing blackcurrant cuttings I've planted out, are of unknown varieties. The reason for this is that any way where a name or date is written on plastic, results in faded unreadable plastic within several months to a year. After that, it comes down to where whatever it was, was planted. And how reliably the notes are, if there are any.
In this case, I must have started my new tagging regime. This involves taking segments of coke cans, and inscribing the variety name on them with a sharp implement. So I am almost certain these are Cotswold Cross blackcurrant cuttings.
And here they are planted out in the paddock. The ground is still damp from the rain last night, but I watered them in anyway. The stones are to prevent the chickens from scratching them out of the ground, as has happened before.
All of these have the coke can labels around them, and are labeled on an orchard map. I'll still need to confirm they are the variety I think they are, based on written and internet descriptions. But I'll need to do that for all my fruit, as more than a few have turned out to be other than described by whoever they were sourced from.
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