Currant and gooseberry cutting vendors

General Fruit Growing
#1

I am looking for vendors of currant and gooseberry cuttings. I know about Fruitwood.com. Are there any others?

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#2

Are you looking for just a few of each? I’d check the primarily berries section here

I know Whitmann Farms has a lot not posted on her website if you call/email and ask.

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#3

Brambleberry Farm should be offering some soon. I have not ordered for mail delivery from them, but I have personally visited their permaculture nursery and was very impressed with the personal service and plants that I got. (Note: they only ship scion wood and cuttings.)

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#4

A lot of currants and gooseberries at the Corvallis repository are listed in the USDA GRIN system. A note says: “Requests accepted Sept through Dec 31; Shipping season: January.” Probably won’t ship R. nigrum to MA, though; don’t know about other ribes.

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#5

if you only need a few put a want list in the trading thread. . many of us have a good amount of different cultivars that we can share.

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#6

@steveb4 Problem is the stupid law in Massachusetts that requires that a permit be acquired by the seller in order to ship to Massachusetts. I doubt that any person would be willing to go to that trouble, but I may be wrong. For all I know it might be simple to get the permit.
It is not even OK for someone within Massachusetts to send, without a permit, cuttings to someone in Massachusetts in a town where growing gooseberries and currants is allowed.

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#7

Have you looked at Nourse Farms in Deerfield? They only sell bushes, but you can take all the cuttings you need once you have your first bush of each variety.

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#8

i dont think Nourse sells Ribes to banned/ regulated states. many nurseries on the east coast wont.

#9

@steveb4 Nourse does sell to cities within Massachusetts that do not require a permit. I have bought Ribes from them. (I live in Mass)

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#10

Indiana berry has some varieties, as well as Hartmanns plant company

#11

@JeremiahT I looked at the GRIN system but did not see any listed with common names (E.g., Pixwell, etc.)

#12

Indiana Berry, Nourse and Hartmanns sell plants only, not cuttings.

#13

they must have changed their policies from 4-5 years ago. they didnt back then. used to have a disclaimer at the top of their Ribes page.

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