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flossie
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Lincoln
Are the birds eating unripe currants?
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May 29, 2006, 21:38:20 »
My - unripe - red and black currants are disappearing fast.
Normally I net them right at the end of May/when they are starting to ripen.
This year there are now signs of ripening but the are disappearing. Has anybody else had trouble this year?
Any thoughts?
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Simon05
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Re: Are the birds eating unripe currants?
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May 29, 2006, 21:59:01 »
my red currants have been disappearing fast as well, but mine are in a fruit cage, I have put it down to the weather being too cold and wet
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saddad
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Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: Are the birds eating unripe currants?
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May 30, 2006, 22:57:48 »
My bushes are throwing away pounds of unripe currants but I still have 10lbs from last year and more than I could ever pick!
8)
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Tin Shed
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South Essex
Re: Are the birds eating unripe currants?
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June 02, 2006, 21:54:04 »
Last year I lost all my red currants - no jelly that year - to the pigeons.
I only worked out what was going wrong when all the currants had gone . I presumed it was pigeons as many of the branches were broken as smaller birds aren't that heavy. I don't have them in a fruit cage so have covered them with old net curtains which hopefully will help
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Simon05
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June 04, 2006, 19:05:43 »
net curtains will work, we have to cover the gooseberries in them as the pigeons ate one bush clean a couple of years ago
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