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How to save and move old fruit bushes
LG_
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My childhood home is to be sold this year. I took rose cuttings last autumn and have dug up snowdrops and various other plants this spring. But there are some old, neglected (for several years) but previously prolific fruit bushes and I wonder if there is any way of successfully moving a few, or parts thereof? And is it even worth trying?
There are, I think, redcurrants, blackcurrants and gooseberries.
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You can take cuttings, but currant bushes (especially older neglected ones) may be carrying a virus.
As Tetley says - look forward and plant new
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Give it a go LG. can't do any harm to try. I'd dig up with as much root as possible, put the root ball in a plastic bag tied around the neck of the plant, and move as quickly as possible to its new home. Some light feed and water in well. I'm very sentimental and would definatley try this.
It you are moving for none sentimental reasons and you want them for the fruit, then I'd go with new ones.
It would be for sentimental reasons (tbh I'd probably choose different fruit for myself) but I have taken lots of plants already so it's not strictly necessary. I think I'll take the middle road - give cuttings a go if they look like they are producing good cutting material and leave them alone if not.
Thanks all for helping me see it a bit more clearly.