Gooseberry Gone

[NOG]

Went up the plot and all my Gooseberrys are gone....I know I didnt net them but...every one....gone.

Now I have nothing to put in my pie.

[SarzWix]

Rubbish Blummin' birds! My blackcurrants are all disappearing just on the brink of being ripe. They don't seem so interested in the redcurrants though even though the bushes are right next to each other

[madmum23]

Hi NOG. Same thing happened up at my allotment. I don't particularly like gooseberries but I inherited 3 bushes. One bush was severely attacked a month ago and so I netted it with about 6 gooseberries left. In the meantime, they have completely stripped the other 2 bushes. Not a single berry left

I am concerned that anything fruiting whilst my back is turned and there goes my harvest. I am going up tomorrow to protect my raspberries before those pesky blackbirds do.

[Geo]

Went up the plot and all my Gooseberrys are gone....I know I didnt net them but...every one....gone.

Now I have nothing to put in my pie.

I know how you feel Nog..

Birds stripped 3 of my 7...

Gosgog bushes..

I have netted the remaining bushes...

Geo..

[bobleponge]

Bother. I knew there was something I meant to do before I left for work.

I shall be with you in the no pie department Nog.

[Two_Sheds]

They did you a favour ... gooseberries are horrible.

(I got my blackcurrants netted a fortnight ago because I lost every one last year). They ripen just when all the baby birds have fledged ... so you can't blame them for helping themselves. What would you rather have? A dirty old worm or a nice ripe berry?

[bobleponge]

Double bother. Currants too!!

[Flummery]

Someone on our plot had all their gooseberries go overnight. It was someone with gardening gloves though! And they had to pass to allotments with gooseberries to get to theirs. One could feel it was personal!

(Mine are in the garden at home.)

[Topcat36]

Netted my little raspberry bush the other day, just before birds could see them turning juicy red, wont have any goose gogs till next year. Felt guilty tho and went out and got them a treat, must be mad.

[murphy99]

I put a net over my strawberry plant that was in a in a planter on the patio only to se a squirrel lifting the net and going under to get the strawberies I now have the next fixed down with other planters hoping that will keep him out....can you believe the cheek!!

[SarzWix]

Spoke too soon... Went to pick the redcurrants today and there was only unripe ones left Must invest in some netting for next year!

[Snadger]

Spoke too soon... Went to pick the redcurrants today and there was only unripe ones left Must invest in some netting for next year!

I did wonder Sarz, birds usually attack red currants, white currants and gooseberries but leave the blackcurrants.

[Snadger]

Tempting providence here I know, and gloating a bit, I must admit, but I've already harvested the blackcurrants off one of my three different varieties and the others are coming along nicely. Same goes for my red, whitecurrants and goosegogs. Birds probably can't find them in among the weeds I guess!

[kentvegplot]

I went to pick my (few) redcurrants which are in the fruit cage, only to find that some varmit had already carefully picked them off! I assume it was mice - I don't think I can net against them :-)

[NOG]

I saw the scaffolders at a building site striking some towers...I asked if they had any that they didn't want and now have 4 sacks of connectors....an old type they cant use any more and 20 bits....3 -6 foot and 2 18 foot lengiths with a slight bend in them....a ruit cage in the making.