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?
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
My bushes are throwing away pounds of unripe currants but I still have 10lbs from last year and more than I could ever pick!
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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
net curtains will work, we have to cover the gooseberries in them as the pigeons ate one bush clean a couple of years ago